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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 14, 2000Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2000, 3:21 AM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 39 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: Aug 14, 2000, 3:21 AM CDT (08:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2000, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:20 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 13, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -452 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2518 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 434 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

421 
WUUS53 KBIS 140822
SVRBIS
NDC093-140900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
321 AM CDT MON AUG 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF JAMESTOWN

* UNTIL 400 AM CDT

* AT 321 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  JAMESTOWN AT 345 AM CDT

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT MONDAY
MORNING FOR NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4707 9929 4677 9915 4685 9850 4728 9853

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Stark	47 min
Aug 13, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	43 min
Aug 13, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn	63 min
Aug 13, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Golden Valley	26 min
Aug 13, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean	59 min
Aug 14, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.