Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Watches in 2023
Tornado Watch 371
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 24, 2023, 3:42 PM CDT for 12 counties in Minnesota; Cass County, Richland County, Traill County, North Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 2023, 3:42 PM CDT (20:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2023, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 50 kt
Counties Becker County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Cass County, ND, Richland County, ND, Traill County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 10%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 30%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Mahnomen, Norman | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Polk | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Otter Tail, Wadena | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 27 min |
| Jun 24, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Polk | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Polk | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Steele, Traill | 25 min |
| Jun 24, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 25 min |
| Jun 24, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard, Wadena | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard, Wadena | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 61 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 276 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1165 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 4:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 83 min |
| Jun 24, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Cass, Clay, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 24, 3:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Rock | 119 min |
| Jun 24, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn and 9 more | 115 min |
| Jun 24, 5:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Norman and 2 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.