Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Bismarck, ND
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.
- 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
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 N
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 7:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Slope | 52 min |
| Jul 3, 7:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Slope | 25 min |
| Jul 3, 8:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.