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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 25, 1991Burke County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 1991, 8:57 PM CDT for Burke County, North Dakota. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 1991, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1991, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Burke County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 263 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3404 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1292 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 9.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 25, 5:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

NDZ003>014-251430-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
545 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1991

...TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHCENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL
1 AM CDT TONIGHT...

A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHCENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL
1 AM CDT TONIGHT. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF MINOT...BOTTINEAU
...BELCOURT AND GARRISON AND ALSO INCLUDES ALL OF THE LAKE SAKAKAWEA
AREA.

AT 540 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING THROUGH WILLISTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH
AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST WARD AND RENVILLE COUNTIES BY 730 PM CDT.
THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND STRONG
GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP THIS EVENING AND COULD BECOME
SEVERE AND POSSIBLY PRODUCE A TORNADO.

PEOPLE IN THE NORTHCENTRAL PART OF THE STATE WILL NEED TO SEEK SHELTER
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

MCMULLEN

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 7:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

NDZ003>014-260230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
730 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1991

...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHCENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
UNTIL 1 AM CDT TONIGHT...

A 720 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM
OVER CENTRAL BURKE COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH
AND WILL MOVE OVER NORTHERN RENVILLE COUNTY BY 830 PM CDT...PASSING
THROUGH THE TOWN OF SHERWOOD...45 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINOT.

THIS STORM HAS SHOWN A DECREASE IN INTENSITY...HOWEVER IT WILL STILL
PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THE
HEAVY RAIN COULD PRODUCE BRIEF LOCALIZED FLOODING.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN
SIOUX AND GRANT COUNTIES BY 830 PM CDT OR 730 PM MDT. THESE STORMS WILL
LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

PEOPLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

MCMULLEN

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 7:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

NDZ001>-003-005-252310-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
735 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1991

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL
9 PM CDT...
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEAST WILLIAMS...EASTERN
DIVIDE AND WESTERN BURKE COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...

AT 730 PM CDT...RADAR IN WILLISTON INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY
RAIN OVER EASTERN BURKE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO
THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO WARD COUNTY DURNING
THE NEXT HOUR.

THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...HAIL
AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES.

ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN MONTANA NEAR
THE SIDNEY AREA. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN WILLIAMS AND
WESTERN MCKENIZE COUNTY AROUND 820 PM CDT.

THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SOME BREIF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

RICHMOND

Local storm report, Jun 25, 7:58 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
800 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1991

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

JUN 25    540 PM CDT  SOUTHWEST WILLIAMS COUNTY...WINDS ESTIMATED 65
                      TO 70 MPH.

JUN 25    545 PM CDT  SOUTHWEST WILLIAMS COUNTY...1 MILES SOUTH OF
                      WILLISON...SHERRIF REPORTED 1 INCH HAIL.

JUN 25    558 PM CDT  SOUTHWEST WILLIAMS COUNTY...EAST SIDE OF
                      WILLISTON...1 INCH HAIL... 61 HUNDREDTHS RAIN
                      IN 15 MINUTES...LOCAL FLOODING OF STREETS AND
                      SOME BASEMENTS.

JUN 25    650 PM CDT  NORTHEAST WILLIAMS COUNTY...3/4 INCH HAIL IN
                      TIGOA. WINDS ESTIMATED 40 TO 50 MPH.
.

JUN 25    720 PM CDT  SOUTHWEST BURKE COUNTY...TOWN OF POWERS LAKE
                      REPORTED  9 TENTHS OF AN INCH OF RAIN IN 10
                      MINUTES.

RICHMOND

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 8:54 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	55 min
Jun 25, 8:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Divide	65 min
Jun 25, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	65 min
Jun 25, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke	63 min
Jun 25, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	64 min
Jun 25, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons	48 min
Jun 25, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Stutsman	53 min
Jun 26, 4:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Eddy, Foster	53 min
Jun 26, 4:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	53 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 1991 Every flash flood warning in 1991

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.