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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Bismarck, ND

September 1, 1997Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 1997, 1:31 AM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 14 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 1, 1997, 1:31 AM CDT (06:31 UTC)
Expired: Sep 1, 1997, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Stutsman County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 1, 1:40 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Courtenay, ND	strong winds tore roof off of pig barn. roof was blown 100 feet away. No livestock were injured.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 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.

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: 1215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

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

147 
WUUS1 KBIS 010632 RRA
SVRBIS
NDC093-010645-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
131 AM CDT MON SEP 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN STUTSMAN COUNTY
 
AT 130 AM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF
JAMESTOWN MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SPIRITWOOD IS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
LEBLANG/VINING

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

Local storm report, Aug 31, 11:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
1105 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0505 PM    MEDINA                    ND   2.00 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   STUTSMAN

0535 PM    WINDSOR                   ND   4.50 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   STUTSMAN                       REPORTS OF A FEW
                                          HAILSTONES BIGGER THAN
                                          SOFTBALL

0550 PM    JAMESTOWN                 ND   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   STUTSMAN

0550 PM    ELDRIDGE                  ND   1.25 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   STUTSMAN

0550 PM    ELDRIDGE                  ND   TORNADO
08/31/97   STUTSMAN                       TORNADO REPORTED ON
                                          BRIEFLY ON GROUND NEAR
                                          ELDRIDGE

0620 PM    JAMESTOWN                 ND   2.75 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   STUTSMAN                       NUMEROUS REPORTS OF
                                          AUTO...TREE AND BUILDING
                                          DAMAGE. HAIL LASTED IN
                                          JAMESTOWN FOR APPROX. 30
                                          MINUTES. HAIL REPORTED IN
                                          SIZE FROM 3/4 TO 2.75 INCH

0640 PM    JAMESTOWN                 ND   TORNADO
08/31/97   STUTSMAN                       TORNADO REPORTED NEAR
                                          BUFFALO MALL.

0651 PM    STEELE                    ND   4.50 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   KIDDER

0710 PM    STEELE                    ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   KIDDER                         HAIL FELL IN STEELE FROM
                                          651 PM TO 730 PM. HAIL
                                          VARIED IN SIZE FROM
                                          MARBLE TO SOFTBALL AT
                                          TIMES.

0717 PM    10 S JAMESTOWN            ND   TORNADO
08/31/97   STUTSMAN                       BRIEF TOUCHDOWN

0730 PM    JAMESTOWN                 ND   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   STUTSMAN                       SECOND STORM SYSTEM MOVED
                                          INTO JAMESTOWN. ALSO UP
                                          TO THIS TIME JAMESTOWN
                                          RECEIVED 1.5 INCHES OF
                                          RAIN

0738 PM    STEELE                    ND   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   KIDDER                         SECOND STORM TO HIT STEELE

0750 PM    1 W STEELE                ND   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   KIDDER

0800 PM    BUCHANAN                  ND   HEAVY RAIN
08/31/97   STUTSMAN                       3.50 INCHES OF RAIN FELL
                                          FROM 5 PM TO 8 PM

0830 PM    4 S STEELE                ND   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   KIDDER                         ALL POWER AND PHONE LINES
                                          DOWN IN STEELE

0846 PM    1 S LINCOLN               ND   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   BURLEIGH

0908 PM    MEDINA                    ND   HEAVY RAIN
08/31/97   STUTSMAN                       2.10 INCHES OF RAIN FELL
                                          FROM 8 TO 9 PM CDT

0700 PM    LAKE ISABEL               ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/31/97   KIDDER                         REPORTS OF COMPLETE
                                          DESTRUCTION. NO LEAVES
                                          LEFT ON TREES. LARGER
                                          HAIL OF UNKNOWN SIZE ALSO
                                          REPORTED.

0930 PM    STREETER                  ND   65 MPH WIND GUST
08/31/97   STUTSMAN                       REPORTED BY NWS COOP
                                          OBSERVER

1030 PM    JAMESTOWN                 ND   HEAVY RAIN
08/31/97   STUTSMAN                       TOTAL RAINFALL REPORTS
                                          FROM JAMESTOWN VARY FROM
                                          4 TO 5 INCHES. ALSO MOST
                                          PHONE AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN IN JAMESTOWN.
                                          NUMEROUS REPORTS OF CAR
                                          WINDSHIELDS BROKEN OUT
                                          FROM EARLIER STORMS

DLH

Special weather statement, Sep 1, 12:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

NDZ022>025-034>037-042-045>048-050-051-010600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
1220 AM CDT MON SEP 1 1997

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUND ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL
NORTH...

AT 1210 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL BANDS OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS. ONE BAND STRETCHED FROM 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK TO
50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK...ACROSS SIOUX...EMMONS AND LOGAN
COUNTIES.

ANOTHER LINE WAS LOCATED FROM 55 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN TO 35
MILES NORTHEAST OF JAMESTOWN IN NORTHERN STUTSMAN AND FOSTER COUNTIES.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL...WINDS TO
50 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA SHOULD SEEK
SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS.

LEBLANG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 31, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Stutsman	44 min
Aug 31, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder	44 min
Aug 31, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	33 min
Aug 31, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder	47 min
Aug 31, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	48 min
Aug 31, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Stutsman	33 min
Aug 31, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder	69 min
Aug 31, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	47 min
Aug 31, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan, Stutsman	44 min
Aug 31, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	41 min
Aug 31, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	64 min
Aug 31, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	43 min
Sep 1, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	41 min
Sep 1, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan, McIntosh	51 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.