Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Bismarck, ND

Issued

Jun 12, 2000, 8:38 PM MDT (02:38 UTC)

Expired

Jun 12, 2000, 9:45 PM MDT

In force

67 min

Issued by

NWS Bismarck, ND

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Adams County, ND, Bowman County, ND

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 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.

000 
WUUS53 KBIS 130239
SVRBIS
NDC001-011-130345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
  EASTERN BOWMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 945 PM MDT

* AT 838 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF GASCOYNE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF BOWMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   REEDER AT 850 PM MDT
   BUCYRUS AT 905 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE% WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...GET TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 4602 10321 4590 10303 4599 10272 4619 10244
          4627 10296

JP MARTIN

NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 12, 2:30 PM MDT, 6 hours 8 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

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
721 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0525 PM    9 E BEACH                 ND   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/00   GOLDEN VALLEY                  REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0625 PM    FAIRFIELD                 ND   .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/00   BILLINGS                       REPORTED BY STORM
       j                                   SPOTTER.

0625 PM    8 SSE FAIRFIELD           ND   TORNADO
06/12/00   BILLINGS                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

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

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.