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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 2, 2000McKenzie County, Williams County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2000, 11:58 PM CDT for McKenzie County, Williams County, North Dakota. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 2000, 11:58 PM CDT (04:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties McKenzie County, ND, Williams County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 236 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 2000-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 883 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 2000-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
883 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2382 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

034 
WUUS53 KBIS 030458
SVRISN
NDC053-105-030600-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
1158 PM CDT (1058 PM MDT) SUN JUL 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLISTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN WILLIAMS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA
  WESTERN MCKENZIE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 1155 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILLISTON... MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  TRENTON AT 1215 AM CDT
  WILLISTON AT 1225 AM CDT

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

DTJ

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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 Jul 2, 3:15 PM CDT, 8 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 3:15 PM CDT, 8 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
315 PM CDT SUN JUL 02 2000

THE ETA BEST HANDLE ON FCST LAST COUPLE DAYS AND CONTINUES TO
HANDLE NEXT FCST PD. ALL MDLS IN GOOD AGREEMENT KEEPING THE
CWA IN A SOUTHWEST FLO ALOFT AND A SERIES OF SHORT WAVES
ROTATING THRU. THIS SENERIO WILL KEEP THE AMS UNSTABLE WITH
SCT/BKN TSRA AHEAD OF EAST S/WV. PLENTY OF LOW LVL MSTR
AVAILABLE. SUNSHINE THIS AFTN AND DEW PTS IN THE 60S WILL
HELP FUEL CONVECTION LATER TODAY. AT THIS TIME BEST KICKER
REMAINS OVR MT. AS THIS SYS EJECTS NORTHEAST IN THE FLO
SEE BEST CHC CONVECTION DVLPG ERN MT LATE THIS AFTN AND
MOVING INTO WRN CWA AROUND 00Z. CURRENT MSAS LIS OF -4 TO
-6 OVR ERN MT WL ADVECT EASTWARD LATE THS AFTN. FCST CAPES
OF 2000 TO 4000 J/KG OVR WRN ND WL AIDE IN PSBL SVR TSRA
ACTIVITY IN THE WEST TNGT...PRIMARY THREAT WL BE HAIL AND
WIND. MAIN PROB WILL BE TIMING OF TSRA ACTIVITY. CURRENT
THOUGHTS ARE AROUND 00Z IN THE WEST WITH ACTIVITY MOVING
NORTHEAST DURING THE LATE EVENING.

THE EXTENDED...NEW MRF CONTINUES KEEPING THE CWA IN A SOUTHWEST
FLOW ALOFT AND SERIES OF S/WVS ROTATING THRU. WILL SEE
A CONTINUED CHC OF TSRA THRU THE WEEK...ESPECIALLY NORTH.

.BIS...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 7:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISSlope52 min
Jul 3, 7:35 AM CDTTornado WarningBISSlope25 min
Jul 3, 8:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISHettinger50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2000Every 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.