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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 11, 2000Burleigh County, McLean County, Oliver County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT for Burleigh County, McLean County, Oliver County, North Dakota. It was in force for 45 min. 4 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Burleigh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Oliver County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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 11, 6:29 PM CDT	Hail 1	Coleharbor, ND
Jun 11, 6:56 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Washburn, ND
Jun 11, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Hensler, ND	Tornado remained in open field and moved into McLean county.
Jun 11, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Washburn, ND	Tornado originated in Oliver county. Tornado stayed in open fields.

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 11, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 305 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.

000 
WUUS53 KBIS 112313
SVRBIS
NDC015-055-065-120000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
615 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BURLEIGH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  EASTERN MCLEAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  NORTHEASTERN OLIVER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 615 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 22 MILES NORTH OF COLEHARBOR TO
  14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRICE...OR FROM 26 MILES SOUTH OF MINOT TO 25
  MILES NORTHWEST OF BISMARCK...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   WASHBURN...SANGER AT 620 PM CDT
   PRICE AT 630 PM CDT
   TURTLE LAKE AT 635 PM CDT
   WILTON AT 650 PM CDT
   MERCER AT 655 PM CDT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

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.

LAT...LON 4774 10127 4706 10126 4705 10066 4783 10066

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville	49 min
Jun 11, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	39 min
Jun 11, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Hettinger	59 min
Jun 11, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	59 min
Jun 11, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	31 min
Jun 11, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	54 min
Jun 11, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	66 min
Jun 11, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Renville	45 min
Jun 11, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Ward	37 min
Jun 11, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean, Oliver	32 min
Jun 11, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	60 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.