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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 11, 2000Bottineau County, McHenry County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT for Bottineau County, McHenry County, North Dakota. It was in force for 60 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: Jun 11, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bottineau County, ND, McHenry County, ND

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
Jun 11, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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 112353 COR
SVRBIS
NDC009-049-120045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED EXTRA WORDING LAST PARAGRAPH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
645 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BOTTINEAU COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA   
  MCHENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM WESTERN BOTTINEAU AND MCHENRY COUNTIES 
FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF MINOT TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MINOT...MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* TOWNS IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE WESTHOPE...NEWBURG...
   MAXBASS...GRANVILLE...VELVA AND ALL POINTS EAST.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING 
FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. THESE STORMS ARE ROTATING AND TORNADOES
MAY FORM VERY QUICKLY WI3THOUT WARNING.

LAT...LON 4843 10087 4830 10068 4854 10026 4870 10050

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 11, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
250 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000

PROBLEM FIRST PERIOD...AND SECOND...IS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT AND
LOCATION. SURFACE FRONT IS NOW OVER KISN-JUST WEST OF KDIK AND
PUSHING EAST ABOUT 15 KNOTS. MESO-ETA INDICATES H5 ENERGY NOSING
INTO NW ND NOW WITH VORT CENTER IN SW SASKATCHEWAN...THIS VERIFIED
WELL WITH SATELLITE IMAGERY POSITIONING. MSAS INDICATING MANY SEVERE
WEATHER FACTORS COMING TOGETHER...DEW POINTS HAVE RISEN TO 60 OVER
SOUTH CENTRAL ND...LI'S ARE ANALYZED AT -9 BETWEEN KBIS AND KDIK...
AND CAPES RUNNING OVER 2500 J/KG. STORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN E WY AND
W SD AND MOVG NORTHEAST. THETA-E RIDGE EVIDENT RIGHT THROUGH AREA OF
DEVELOPMENT. SELS HAS EASTERN 4/5THS OF CWA IN SLGT RISK AND THIS
LOOKS GOOD BASED ON POSITION OF FRONT AND ABOVE PARAMETERS. WILL
WORD MOST ZONES WITH POSSIBLY SEVERE TONIGHT. HIGHEST RISK LOOKS TO
BE FROM ADAMS COUNTY NDZ044...NORTHEAST...TO PIERCE COUNTY NDZ013.
RISK ALONG MT BORDER VERY LOW...AND MAY NOT EVEN BE ANY STORMS KISN
AREA. PUSH BEHIND FRONT IS WEAK AND WILL EXPECT IT TO STALL ACROSS
CENTRAL ND TONIGHT...LEAVING THE AREA AHEAD OF IT PRIME FOR SEVERE
STORMS ON MONDAY. NEXT H5 ENERGY COMES TO ND/MT BORDER LATE MONDAY
WITH ANOTHER SHOT AT STORMS. MODELS INDICATE WRAP AROUND SHOWERS
BEHIND THAT ONE THROUGH TUESDAY. FWC TEMPS SEEM REASONABLE BASED ON
EXPECTED FRONTAL POSITION...THOUGH IT WAS T=OO LOW ON HIGH TEMPS
TODAY. IN EXTENDED FORECAST...WILL MAINTAIN CONTINUITY WITH GOING
FORECAST AS THIS IS SUPPORTED BY LATEST MRF.

.BIS...NONE.

JP MARTIN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-112200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
330 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

FORECAST...THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF WESTERN
AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

DISCUSSION...SHORTWAVE ENERGY MOVING INTO WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA...
COMBINED WITH A SURFACE COLD FRONT FROM WILLISTON TO DICKINSON
WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA. THE ATMOSPHERE WAS VERY UNSTABLE OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
WITH LIFTED INDICES NEARING -10 AND CAPE VALUES ABOVE 2500 J/KG.
LAPSE RATES WERE BECOMING MORE STEEP AS THE SURFACE WAS HEATING INTO
THE 80S. DEW POINTS WERE ALSO INCREASING AND HAD RISEN TO AROUND 60
OVER PARTS OF THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY DEVELOPING IN A
THETA-E RIDGE FROM WYOMING TO SOUTH DAKOTA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST.
OTHER STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE
FROM HETTINGER TO MINOT.

WEATHER SPOTTERS WILL PROBABLY BE ACTIVATED FOR CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.

THIS PRODUCT IS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA
WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATED FORECASTS.

JP MARTIN

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, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Oliver	45 min
Jun 11, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean, Oliver	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.