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Tornado Watch 422
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 15, 2024, 7:10 PM MDT for 24 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2024, 7:10 PM MDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2024, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 75 kt
All 24 counties
Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Renville County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Hettinger, Stark | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 7:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Hettinger, Morton, Stark | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 8:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, McKenzie, Williams | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 8:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 8:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie, Williams | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 9:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail, Williams | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 9:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McKenzie | 53 min |
| Jun 15, 10:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail, Renville, Ward and 1 more | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 10:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mountrail | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 10:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Mountrail, Renville, Ward | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 11:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McLean, Mercer | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 11:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce, Renville, Rolette, Ward | 54 min |
| Jun 16, 12:36 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton | 54 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 2002 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke and 30 more | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 9:08 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Divide, Dunn and 12 more | 67 min |
| Jun 15, 10:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benson, Bottineau, Burke, Cavalier, Dunn, Eddy and 13 more | 89 min |
| Jun 15, 10:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Nelson, Pembina, Pierce and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:57 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks, Nelson, Pembina and 3 more | 93 min |
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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.