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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 3, 1995Emmons County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 1995, 9:16 PM CDT for Emmons County, North Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1995, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1995, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Emmons County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 349 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
349 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 040215
FFWBIS
NDC029-041215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
916 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...EMMONS COUNTY
 
AT 9:00 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 8 TO 9 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN
CENTRAL EMMONS COUNTY...BETWEEN CANNAN BALL...LINTON...AND HAZELTON...30
MILES SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK. IN ADDITION TO THE RAIN THAT HAS ALREADY
FALLEN...ANOTHER INCH OR TWO MAY FALL YET TONIGHT.
 
ONE CRITICAL LOCATION WILL BE ALONG HIGHWAY 1804...WHERE FLOOD WATERS MAOVERRUN LATER TONIGHT.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
 
ABELING

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningBISEmmons30 min
Jul 3, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons59 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.