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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 6, 2000McLean County, Sheridan County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2000, 12:47 PM CDT for McLean County, Sheridan County, North Dakota. It was in force for 43 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 6, 2000, 12:47 PM CDT (17:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2000, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties McLean County, ND, Sheridan County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 6, 1:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Turtle Lake, ND

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 nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

902 
WUUS53 KBIS 061747
SVRBIS
NDC055-083-061830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1247 PM CDT THU JUL 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MCLEAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  NORTHWESTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 1247 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUTTE...OR ABOUT 43 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF MINOT...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BUTTE AT 110 PM CDT

LAT...LON 4777 10095 4759 10089 4765 10028 4790 10036

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 6, 9:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 9:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
955 AM CDT THU JUL 06 2000

TSTM NR KISN AT 15Z WL CONTINUE TO MOVE ENE TO NORTH OF KMOT BY
MID AFTN. VSBL SATL LOOP SHOWED A LINE MID LVL ACCAS FROM
KMLS-KMOT WITH THE STORM REMAINING NORTH OF LINE. KBIS 88D SHOWED
DEEP SE FLOW FEEDING STORM BUT ATMOS IS ONLY MARGINALLY UNSTABLE
ACCORDING TO MSAS. DO NOT EXPECT ANY SVR WX UNTIL THE FIREWORKS
REALLY BEGIN TONIGHT (REFERENCE SPC DAY 1 OUTLOOK). WL ADD MENTION
OF SVR STORMS TO FCST TGT. OTHERWISE...NO MAJOR CHANGES TO GOING
FORECAST.

.BIS...NONE.
NOAH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 6, 10:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1054 AM CDT THU JUL 06 2000

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

0101 AM    16 SW RHAME               ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/00   BOWMAN                         REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT. SEVERAL
                                          FARM HOUSES WITH DAMAGE
                                          TO SIDING AND BROKEN
                                          WINDOWS.

0101 AM    16 SW RHAME               ND   60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/06/00   BOWMAN                         REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	66 min
Jul 5, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	63 min
Jul 6, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	51 min
Jul 6, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Wells	47 min
Jul 6, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	50 min
Jul 6, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman, Slope	47 min
Jul 6, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	63 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.