Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Bismarck, ND

Issued

Jun 13, 2000, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)

Expired

Jun 13, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT

In force

66 min

Issued by

NWS Bismarck, ND

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Foster County, ND, Stutsman County, ND

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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 132254
SVRBIS
NDC031-093-140000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
554 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FOSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
  NORTHERN STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 554 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MELVILLE...OR ABOUT 30
  MILES NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   MELVILLE AT 610 PM CDT
   BORDULAC AT 620 PM CDT
   CARRINGTON AT 615 PM CDT
   BARLOW AT 700 PM CDT

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

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 ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 900 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4719 9927 4717 9903 4757 9888 4756 9923

RSL

NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 13, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
315 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000

FORECAST PROB WILL BE WINDS...HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL. MODELS HAVE
THE HEAVIER RAINS DRIFTING NORTH AND EAST LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING WITH UP TO 3/4 TO ONE INCH PSBL BY 00Z. HEAVIER
RAINFALL WILL SHIFT OVER ERN ND AROUND 06Z AND DIMINISH TO LIGHT
RAINS OVER WRN/CNTL CWA. WILL NOT CONSIDER A FLASH FLOOD WATCH
AT THIS TIME. NEXT PROB WILL BE WINDS ON BACK SIDE OF THE LOW.
ALREADY GUSTY TO NEAR 30 MPH IN THE WEST AND WILL CONTINUE
INTO THIS EVENING. GUSTY WINDS WILL SHIFT TO CNTL CWA LATER THIS
EVENING INTO WED MORNING. WILL CONT WIND ADVISORY THIS EVENING
IN THE WEST AND TONIGHT/WED MRNG CNTL AREAS.

STRONG CLOSED LOW OVER ABR SD BY 00Z WILL MOVE TO WCNTL MN BY
12Z WED MRNG. THE ETA LIFTED INDEX AND CAPE VALUES POINTS TO
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MAINLY EAST OF THE CWA TNGT. MAY SEE SOME
THUNDER EMBEDDED IN THE RAINS CNTL AREAS THIS EVENING.

.BIS...WIND ADVISORY WEST THIS EVENING...
       WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT CENTRAL...

TURNER

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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.