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Tornado Watch 294

June 9, 202632 counties in North Dakota; 30 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 9, 2026, 3:32 PM MDT for 32 counties in North Dakota; 30 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2026, 3:32 PM MDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2026, 11:34 PM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 75 kt

All 62 counties

Adams County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stark County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Ward County, ND, Wells County, ND, Williams County, ND, Aurora County, SD, Bennett County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Potter County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 70%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

54 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Divide, Williams	61 min
Jun 9, 3:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	39 min
Jun 9, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Morton, Stark	35 min
Jun 9, 4:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	63 min
Jun 9, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Grant, Sioux	61 min
Jun 9, 4:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Stark	44 min
Jun 9, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	60 min
Jun 9, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail	50 min
Jun 9, 5:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Mountrail, Ward	63 min
Jun 9, 5:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Morton, Oliver	46 min
Jun 9, 5:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	52 min
Jun 9, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer	36 min
Jun 9, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson, Oglala Lakota	61 min
Jun 9, 5:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	48 min
Jun 9, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	53 min
Jun 9, 5:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, McLean, Renville	53 min
Jun 9, 5:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton, Sioux	33 min
Jun 9, 5:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry, Renville, Ward	46 min
Jun 9, 6:03 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burke, Divide	42 min
Jun 9, 6:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon	57 min
Jun 9, 6:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Ziebach	26 min
Jun 9, 6:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Morton, Sioux	32 min
Jun 9, 6:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	60 min
Jun 9, 6:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	56 min
Jun 9, 6:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd	64 min
Jun 9, 6:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burke	38 min
Jun 9, 7:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Corson	44 min
Jun 9, 7:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke	39 min
Jun 9, 7:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	45 min
Jun 9, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Rolette	60 min
Jun 9, 7:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Stanley	44 min
Jun 9, 7:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder, Sheridan, Stutsman, Wells	67 min
Jun 9, 7:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Lyman, Stanley	48 min
Jun 9, 8:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sheridan, Wells	58 min
Jun 9, 8:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Wells	63 min
Jun 9, 8:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Hyde, Sully	55 min
Jun 9, 8:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Hyde, Sully	40 min
Jun 9, 8:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman, Wells	56 min
Jun 9, 9:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Sully	45 min
Jun 9, 9:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Potter	53 min
Jun 9, 9:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Charles Mix, Gregory	45 min
Jun 9, 9:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Lyman	58 min
Jun 9, 9:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABR	Buffalo, Hand, Hyde	46 min
Jun 9, 9:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Hyde	44 min
Jun 9, 9:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Beadle, Jerauld, Sanborn	58 min
Jun 9, 9:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABR	Brown, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Spink	42 min
Jun 9, 9:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Edmunds, McPherson	57 min
Jun 9, 9:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Aurora, Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas, Gregory, Hanson and 1 more	50 min
Jun 9, 10:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Clark, Day, Edmunds, McPherson, Marshall and 1 more	63 min
Jun 9, 10:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas, Hanson and 3 more	58 min
Jun 9, 10:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure, Stutsman	64 min
Jun 9, 10:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Miner, Sanborn	42 min
Jun 9, 10:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	37 min
Jun 9, 11:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Beadle, Brookings, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner and 1 more	36 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 12:36 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barnes, Cass, Griggs, Ransom, Richland, Sargent and 2 more	114 min
Jun 9, 1:13 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Grant, Hettinger, McLean, Mercer, Morton and 2 more	3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.