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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 4, 2000Dunn County, Stark County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2000, 8:52 PM MDT for Dunn County, Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 2000, 8:52 PM MDT (02:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2000, 9:45 PM MDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Dunn County, ND, Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 4, 9:15 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Dickinson, ND	Minor damage to paint on west side of buildings.

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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 4, 8:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1565 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KBIS 050254
SVRBIS
NDC025-089-050345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
852 PM MDT TUE JUL 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN DUNN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
  WESTERN STARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DICKINSON

* UNTIL 945 PM MDT

* AT 852 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 39 MILES WEST OF DICKINSON TO 36
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF DICKINSON...OR FROM 39 MILES WEST OF DICKINSON
  TO 32 MILES NORTH OF BOWMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BELFIELD AT 900 PM MDT
  DICKINSON AT 935 PM MDT

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.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM W4ATCH
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM MDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4720 10294 4666 10320 4666 10273 4715 10252

RSL

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 4, 2:40 PM MDT, 6 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 2:40 PM MDT, 6 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
340 PM CDT TUE JUL 04 2000

SFC TROUGH OVER CNTRL ND HAS BEEN FOCUS OF TSTMS...WI HEAVY RAIN
REPORTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN. ONE REPORT OF 1/2 INCH OF RAIN IN
UNDER 10 MINUTES. PREV ISSUED FLASH FLOOD WARNING. WL PUT FLASH
FLOOD WATCH OUT FOR TONIGHT OVER MUCH OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NWRN ND
WHERE HEAVY RAINFALL ALREADY REPORTED. MORNING SOUNDINGS INDICATED
GOOD CHC OF HEAVY RAIN FROM MOT TO BIS AND EWD. ONLY 1/2 INCH HAIL
WAS LARGEST REPORT TODAY - WET BULB ZERO WAS 11500 FT AT BIS THIS
AM. WL MENTION HEAVY RAIN CNTRL AND IN JMS AREA FOR TON. GGW WET
BULB ZERO WAS ONLY 8500 FT TODAY AND POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE TSTMS
MAINLY W OF SFC TROUGH. ISN NOW CLOSE TO CONVECTIVE TEMP OF AROUND
80 IN CLEARING SKIES THIS LAST HOUR.

THOUGHT ETA HANDLED PCPN AND UPPER SHORTWAVES THE BEST TODAY...SO
WENT WI ETA FOR WINDS AND HIGHER POPS IN THE FAR WEST WED...AND IN
THE FAR NW WED NIGHT.

IN THE EXTENDED...NEW AVN AND MRF WANT TO BUILD A H7 CAP ON
THU...BREAKING IT DOWN FRI EVE...THEN BUILDING IT BACK UP ON SAT AND
SUN. HOWEVER...WHEN COMPARED WI ETA OUT TO 60 HRS THOUGHT MRF HAD
ATMOS A BIT TOO WARM. SO...KEPT CHC OF TSTMS IN THROUGH PERIOD.

.BIS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FAR NW AND MUCH OF N CNTRL ND
        (INCLUDES DIVIDE COUNTY TO ROLETTE COUNTY ALONG CANADIAN BORDER
        AND WARD...MCHENRY...AND PIERCE COUNTIES)

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	46 min
Jul 4, 7:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	60 min
Jul 4, 8:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	56 min
Jul 4, 8:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	66 min
Jul 4, 8:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	60 min
Jul 4, 8:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	LaMoure	35 min
Jul 4, 9:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	54 min
Jul 4, 9:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings	46 min
Jul 4, 9:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	40 min
Jul 4, 10:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	53 min
Jul 4, 11:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	43 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.