Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Bismarck, ND

Issued

Jun 12, 2000, 4:26 PM MDT (22:26 UTC)

Expired

Jun 12, 2000, 5:15 PM MDT

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Bismarck, ND

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Billings County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 225 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WUUS53 KBIS 122226
SVRBIS
NDC007-033-122315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
426 PM MDT MON JUN 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BILLINGS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA   
  GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 426 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SENTINEL BUTTE...OR ABOUT 51 MILES WEST OF
  DICKINSON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   MEDORA AT 450 PM MDT

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4698 10391 4680 10389 4680 10341 4701 10345

RSL

NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 12, 2:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
330 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000

PROBLEM TODAY IS WHEN/WHERE SVR WX THREAT WL BE. GGW SOUNDING WAS
NOT IMPRESSIVE THIS MORNING...BUT BIS AND ABR QUITE UNSTABLE WI
CONVECTIVE TEMPS OF 87 IN BIS AND 90 AT ABR. BIS TEMP IN THE LOWER
80S AND ABR IN THE MID 80S ATTM. MAY NOT HIT THIS LOW LEVEL CAP THIS
AFTN. HOWEVER...SHARP SFC BOUNDARY STRETCHES FROM SFC LOW IN ERN WY
ACROSS S CNTRL ND AND INTO GFK AREA. GOOD STRONG SLY FLOW BRINGING
IN HIGHER DWPTS IN THE 60S S AND E OF THIS BOUNDARY. LATER THIS EVE
A GOOD LLJ SETS UP IN ERN DAKS/MN/IA. TSTMS MAY FIRE IN VCNTY OF SFC
BOUNDARY. OTHERWISE MUST WAIT FOR UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVES MOVING IN
FROM THE SW TONIGHT. ACCORDING TO ETA...PCPN WL OCCUR IN NRN ND THIS
MORN AND AFT WI H5 VORTICITY AND THIS HAS HAPPENED. NEXT PIECE OF H5
ENERGY PROGGED TO ENTER SWRN ND THIS EVE WI VORT MAX JUST S OF BIS
BY 06Z. WOULD EXPECT TSTM ACTIVITY TO BEGIN IN ERN WY/SERN MT EARLY
THIS EVE...THEN MOVE INTO SWRN ND...THEN SPREAD TO NERN ND BY 12Z
TUE AND BECOME AN OVERNIGHT MCS FOR ERN HALF OF ND. WL MENTION
POSSIBLY SEVERE TON FOR ALL BUT THE NWRN COUNTIES.

SFC LOW IN NERN ND TUE MORN. H5 AND H7 LOWS OVER N CNTRL ND WI LOTS
OF VORTICITY PROVIDING LIFT FOR SHOWERS AND TSTMS. WRAP AROUND
SHOWERS TUE AND TUE NT TO BRING WIDESPREAD RAINS TO CWA. ON
WED...SYSTEM EXITS TO THE EAST...BUT ANOTHER SHORT WAVE MOVES
THROUGH NWLY FLOW TO SET OFF SCT SHOWERS. COOLER WX FROM TUE THROUGH
EXTENDED PERIOD AS ND UNDER INFLUENCE OF LARGE H5 LOW.

.BIS...NONE.
VINING

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