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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 29, 1990Grant County, Morton County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1990, 8:10 AM MDT for Grant County, Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1990, 8:10 AM MDT (14:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1990, 8:45 AM MDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Grant County, ND, Morton County, ND

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1990-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 771 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1990-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
771 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 291410
SVRBIS
NDC059-037-291445-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
910 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      WESTERN MORTON...

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      NORTHERN GRANT...

AT 8 AM MDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE TOWNS OF ALMONT AND FLASHER
BY 820 AM MDT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAIN MAY FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY
SO AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

THIS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS
AND UNDERPASSES.

 MCMULLEN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:17 AM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
NDZALL-291200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
515 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 1990

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA...

AT 515 AM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS 25 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM 25
MILES NORTH OF BISMARCK...NEAR WILTON...TO 55 MILES NORTHWEST OF
BISMARCK...NEAR HEBRON...TO NEAR DICKINSON. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS
CONTAIN HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY
WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT DICKINSON 505 AM CDT.

THE HEAVY RAINS MAY CAUSE LOCAL FLOODING...ROADWAYS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY
SO AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVhERS THE ROAD.

BE PREPARED MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

JOBE
Local storm report, Jun 29, 4:29 AM MDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
530 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 1990

DATE      TIME  ZONE    EVENT...LOCATION...REMARKS

JUN 28    1123 PM MDT   GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL 4 MILES NORTH OF HAZEN...
                        IN MERCER COUNTY.

JUN 29     205 AM MDT   GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL 2 MILES EAST OF THE
                        DICKINSON AIRPORT...IN STARK COUNTY.

JUN 29     225 AM MDT   TWO AND ONE HALF INCH HAIL 4 MILES SOUTHEAST
    |                    OF THE DICKINSON AIRPORT...IN STARK COUNTY.

JOBE
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:46 AM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
NDZ002-003-291230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
630 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 1990

...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHWESTERN NORTHDAKOTA...

AT 630 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN WILLISTON INDICATED
A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 75 MILES WEST OF DICKINSON NORTH DAKOTA.
THIS STORM NOW IN MONTANA WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN GOLDEN VALLEY
COUNTY BY 6 AM MDT.  THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS SMALL HAIL...BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

THIS STORM WAS LOCATED AT THE SOUTH END OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS THAT BEGAN
35 MILES SOUTH WEST OF WILLISTON NORTH DAKOTA.

MOVEMENT IS TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

TS
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 6:36 AM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
NDZ002-003-291330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
730 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 1990

...INTENSE THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA...

AT 730 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN WILLISTON INDICATED
AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF DICKINSON NORTH
DAKOTA...IN EXTREME SOUTHERN BILLINGS COUNTY.  THIS STORM HAS INCREASED
IN STRENGTH DURING THE PAST HOUR.

THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS ,HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.

MOVEMENT IS TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

TS
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 6:51 AM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
NDZ003-004-006-007-008-291400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
645 AM MDT FRI JUN 29 1990

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AGAIN IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA...

AT 645 AM MDT A LARGE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
DICKINSON...IN SOUTHERN BILLINGS COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM CONTAINS
HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL
AND GUSTY WINDS.

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE IN
SOUTHWESTERN STARK COUNTY BY 7 AM MDT.

OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE LOCATED JUST
SOUTHEST OF THE DICKINSON AIRPORT...AND 40 TO 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
BISMARCK...OR ALONG AND JUST NORTHN OF CEDAR CREEK.

REMEMBER...HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY...DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO CROSS FLOWING WATER.

BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES.

JOBE
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 7:33 AM MDT, 37 minutes before
NDZ004-007-008-291500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
735 AM MDT FRI JUN 29 1990

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING OVER SOUTHWESTERN AND
SOUTHCENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THIS MORNING.

AT 730 AM MDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM 40 MILES SOUTH OF
BISMARCK TO 35 MILES SOUTH OF DICKINSON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND COULD CAUSE
BRIEF URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. IF ROADWAYS ARE FLOODED DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS THEM ON FOOT OR IN A CAR.

MCMULLEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 7:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie, Williams69 min
Jun 28, 7:46 PM MDTTornado WarningBISMcKenzie29 min
Jun 28, 8:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie48 min
Jun 28, 9:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDunn, McKenzie29 min
Jun 28, 10:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDunn, McKenzie58 min
Jun 28, 10:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMercer35 min
Jun 28, 11:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean, Mercer, Oliver64 min
Jun 29, 2:09 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStark51 min
Jun 29, 2:37 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton68 min
Jun 29, 3:17 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISOliver43 min
Jun 29, 7:35 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISHettinger, Stark20 min
Jun 29, 8:26 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.