Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1999, 4:52 PM CDT for McLean County, Oliver County, North Dakota. It was in force for 38 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
- Jun 3, 1999, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1999, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties McLean County, ND, Oliver County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Underwood, ND | touch down in open field. no damage. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 3, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 300 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1999 ZONES HAVE ALREADY BEEN RELEASED AS SPC HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MOST OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ND UNTIL 040100Z (8 PM CDT). LINE OF DEEP MOIST CONVECTION FORMING ON DEW POINT BOUDARY IN SW ND...DEWS IN THE LOWER 60S EAST OF LINE AND IN THE 30S-50S JUST WEST OF IT. CAPES IN WATCH AREA ARE AROUND 2500 J/KG WITH SATELLITE DERIVED LIFTED INDICES IN THE -3 TO -6 RANGE. THANKS TO LF AT ISN FOR POINTING OUT HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL...K INDEX FORECAST TO BE AROUND 38 THIS EVENING. ADDED HEAVY RAIN TO ZONES. SYSTEM MOVES NORTHEAST LATE TONIGHT BUT A SECONDARY LOBE OF VORTICITY PUSHES INTO ISN AREA FRIDAY AFTERNOON. ADDED SMALL POPS TO AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. EXTENDED LOOKS STORMY SATURDAY NIGHT- SUNDAY. LESS CHANCES OF STORMS FOR MONDAY. .BIS...NONE. JP MARTIN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 3, 3:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
351 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0340 PM SHIELDS ND 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 GRANT
0345 PM SHIELDS ND 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 GRANT
0350 PM BREIEN ND 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 MORTON
ENDLocal storm report, Jun 3, 3:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
351 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0340 PM SHIELDS ND 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 GRANT
0345 PM SHIELDS ND 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 GRANT
0350 PM BREIEN ND 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/99 MORTON
ENDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 63 min |
| Jun 3, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Sioux | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 64 min |
| Jun 3, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Morton, Sioux | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mercer, Morton, Oliver | 40 min |
| Jun 3, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Emmons, Morton, Sioux | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Emmons | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McLean | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Kidder | 28 min |
| Jun 3, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Kidder | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, McLean | 56 min |
| Jun 3, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Kidder, Stutsman | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McHenry, Pierce | 25 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.