Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2000, 4:46 PM MDT for Slope 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2000, 4:46 PM MDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2000, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Slope County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -460 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KBIS 142247 SVRBIS NDC087-142345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 446 PM MDT FRI JUL 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SLOPE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 545 PM MDT * AT 446 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME NORTHWESTERN SLOPE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 36 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOWMAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS OF SLOPE COUNTY... IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THE STORM PRODUCED HALF INCH HAIL AS IT DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHERN BILLINGS COUNTY. LAT...LON 4653 10380 4652 10406 4634 10337 4663 10336
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 Jul 14, 1:45 PM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 1:45 PM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 245 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 2000 MID LEVEL CAP IS HOLDING STRONG OVER WRN ND. SHORTWAVE THAT PROMPTED TSTMS IN ERN MT EARLY THIS MORN DIMINISHED AS IT MOVED OVER NWRN ND...WHILE TSTMS CONTINUE OVER SERN SASK. CAP PROGGED TO EXPAND OVER MOST OF ND TODAY AND AXIS OF THERMAL RIDGE SHIFTS EWD TO CNTRL ND BY 18Z SAT. BROAD SFC LOW/TROUGH SYSTEM FROM ALB/SASK/MT/WY TODAY ALSO SHIFTS EWD IN SYNC WI THERMAL RIDGE. BY 12Z SAT TROUGH IS AT MT/DAKS BORDER...IS IN CNTRL ND BY 18Z...THEN AT DVL/JMS VCNTY BY 00Z SUN. SHORTWAVES AND/OR VCNTY OF SFC BOUNDARY IS NECESSARY TO BREAK CAP...AS CONVECTIVE TEMPS ARE ANYWHERE FROM 99 TO 104 DEGREES THIS MORNING. ETA HAS VORT IN SERN MT AT 18Z TODAY...AND THERE IS SOME CONVECTION AS PER VISIBLE SAT PICS...AND MOVES VORT TO NERN MT/SRN SASK BY 00Z. THINK TSTMS WL DEV IN CNTRL/ERN MT LATE THIS AFTN/EARLY EVE. VORT MOVES NEWD INTO SERN SASK BY 06Z WI WEAK VORT TAIL MOVING ACROSS WRN ND. BY 12Z THIS VORT HAS MOVED WELL NWD IN SASK/MAN...BUT WI SFC TROUGH AT WRN DAK BORDER...WOULD EXPECT TSTMS LATE THIS EVE/TONIGHT OVER WRN ND...ESP NWRN ND. ON SAT WI DAYTIME HEATING AND PROGRESSION OF SFC TROUGH EWD INTO CNTRL ND THINK CNTRL ND HAS BEST CHC TSTMS DURING THE DAY. PCPN SHIFTS TO JMS/DVL BY AFTN/EVE. COOLER AND DRIER AIR MOVES IN WI PASSAGE OF TROUGH AND CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES FOR SAT NIGHT/SUN. UPPER JET OF 90 KTS WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE STA ON SUN...AND MOMENTUM SHOULD REACH SFC FOR A WINDY DAY. STILL WARM WI TEMPS IN THE LOW TO MID 80S. ZONAL FLOW ALOFT FROM SUN THROUGH TUE. BROAD SFC LOW DEVS OVER CNTRL PLAINS AND SHORTWAVE M;OVES INTO ND FROM SASK TO KEEP CHC PCPN FOR TUE. NWLY FLOW FOR WED WI COOLER AIR. WRN RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD BACK UP OVER ND BY FRI WI MORE HOT WEATHER BY NEXT WEEKEND. .BIS...NONE. VINING
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.