Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches in 2026
Tornado Watch 415
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 29, 2026, 2:00 PM CDT for 10 counties in Minnesota; 38 counties in North Dakota; 6 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2026, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2026, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 54 counties
Clay County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Grant County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Wells County, ND, Brown County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Roberts County, SD
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, McLean, Ward | 57 min |
| Jun 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Morton | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Ward | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton | 53 min |
| Jun 29, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton | 41 min |
| Jun 29, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Mercer | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, McLean, Ward | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Kidder | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Ward | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 5:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Towner | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Towner | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Grant, Roberts | 19 min |
| Jun 29, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clay | 53 min |
| Jun 29, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay, Norman, Polk | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Hettinger | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman | 28 min |
| Jun 29, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman, Polk | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Polk | 71 min |
| Jun 29, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Ramsey, Towner | 73 min |
| Jun 29, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 26 min |
| Jun 29, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall | 44 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 373 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
- 152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carlton, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Pine | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 5:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 9:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Traverse, Wilkin | 114 min |
| Jun 29, 10:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Douglas and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 29, 11:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Morrison and 3 more | 113 min |
| Jun 29, 2:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Lake, Saint Louis | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Pipestone, Rock | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Douglas and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 10:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McHenry, Pierce, Rolette | 114 min |
| Jun 29, 4:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickey, LaMoure, Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 119 min |
| Jun 29, 12:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benson, Burleigh, Eddy, Emmons, Foster, Kidder and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 7:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Jackson, Oglala Lakota, Todd | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bennett, Buffalo, Haakon, Hand, Hughes, Hyde and 9 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Haakon, Jackson, Jones, Mellette, Oglala Lakota | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Buffalo, Faulk, Hand, Hughes, Hyde and 8 more | 118 min |
| Jun 29, 6:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Faulk, Hand, Hyde | 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.