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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 16, 1993Dickey County, LaMoure County, McIntosh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 1993, 1:10 AM CDT for Dickey County, LaMoure County, McIntosh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1993, 1:10 AM CDT (06:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1993, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dickey County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, McIntosh County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1993-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 735 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1993-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 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
735 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 160610
FFWBIS
NDC021-NDC045-NDC051-160715-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
110 AM CDT FRI JUL 16 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...MCINTOSH COUNTY...LAMOURE COUNTY...AND DICKEY COUNTY...
 
AT 105 AM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
WITH VERY HEAVY FLOODING RAINS FROM 40 MILES SOUTH OF JAMESTOWN TO 65
MILES SOUTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN.
 
TOWNS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE LAMOURE...MONANGO..V.AND
ASHLEY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 8:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBISBurleigh, Morton59 min
Jul 15, 9:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBISBurleigh, Emmons66 min
Jul 16, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcIntosh65 min
Jul 16, 11:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBISBurleigh38 min
Jul 16, 12:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBISKidder12 min
Jul 16, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBenson, Wells51 min

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.