Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1997, 7:01 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1997, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stutsman County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2968 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIS 030001 RRA SVRBIS NDC093-030100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 701 PM CDT MON JUN 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...NORTHERN STUTSMAN COUNTY AT 655 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 30 MILELS NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN...2 MILES NORTHWEST OF EDMUNDS ON THE FOSTER STUTSMAN COUNTY LINE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM PASS JUST WEST OF EDMUNDS BY 710 PM CDT...AND JUST WEST ON PINGREE BY 730 PM CDT. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED TORRENTIAL RAINS UP TO 2.5 INCHES IN 1 HOUR AND 3/4 INCH HAIL AS IT WEST THROUGH FOSTER COUNTY. THIS WARNING DOEOS NOT INCLUDE THE CITY OF JAMESTOWN. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY fRAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. ABELING
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 2, 4:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
NDZ037>039-048-049-051>053-MNZ003-030100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 405 PM CDT MON JUN 2 1997 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA WILL HAVE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN BUT SHOULD ONLY CAUSE LOCALIZED SMALL STREAM FLOODING. REMEMBER ALL THUNDERSTORMS ARE DANGEROUS BECAUSE OF LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE VICINITY OF A THUNDERSTORM SEEK SHELTER. IF YOU COME TO A FLOODED ROAD...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS. DH/TSW
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
NDZ037>039-048-049-051>053-MNZ003-030100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 405 PM CDT MON JUN 2 1997 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA WILL HAVE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN BUT SHOULD ONLY CAUSE LOCALIZED SMALL STREAM FLOODING. REMEMBER ALL THUNDERSTORMS ARE DANGEROUS BECAUSE OF LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE VICINITY OF A THUNDERSTORM SEEK SHELTER. IF YOU COME TO A FLOODED ROAD...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS. DH/TSW
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
NDZ025-022355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 550 PM CDT MON JUN 2 1997 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING IN FOSTER COUNTY... AT 545 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS JUST DEVELOPED IN NORTHWEST FOSTER COUNTY...41 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN OR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARRINGTON. THIS STORM WAS DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AND WILL MOVE NEAR CARRINGTON BY 600 TO 615 PM CDT. EXPECT HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH...HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. REMEMBER LIGHTNING IS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOST DANGEROUS ELEMENT. TAKE SHELTER IF THIS STORM APPROACHES. ABELING
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
NDZ025-022355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 550 PM CDT MON JUN 2 1997 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING IN FOSTER COUNTY... AT 545 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS JUST DEVELOPED IN NORTHWEST FOSTER COUNTY...41 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN OR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARRINGTON. THIS STORM WAS DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AND WILL MOVE NEAR CARRINGTON BY 600 TO 615 PM CDT. EXPECT HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH...HEAVY RAIN AND: GUSTY WINDS. REMEMBER LIGHTNING IS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOST DANGEROUS ELEMENT. TAKE SHELTER IF THIS STORM APPROACHES. ABELING
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.