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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 6, 2000McKenzie County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2000, 6:47 PM CDT for McKenzie County, North Dakota. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 2000, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2000, 7:50 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County McKenzie County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 6, 7:05 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Watford City, ND	One person injured at a horse ranch at the north unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 230 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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
330 PM CDT THU JUL 6 2000

FORECAST CONCERN THROUGH PERIOD IS THUNDERSTORMS. MOST PRESSING IS
THE FIRST PERIOD RISK OF SEVERE AND WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. SEVERE
WEATHER PARAMETERS ARE IN PLACE...REFERENCE SPC SEVERE WEATHER
OUTLOOK DAY 1 SWODY1...ONE LIMITING FACTOR APPEARS TO BE HEIGHT OF
WET BULB ZERO...ABOUT 11 KFT...WITH VERY MOIST AIR OVER REGION...
DEWS ABOVE 70. IN FACT STORMS THAT ARE INDICATED AS SEVERE ON BOTH
KBIS AND KMBX 88D/S ARE YIELDING REPORTS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA
SIZE HAIL. THIS WITH VIL AS HIGH AS 62. WARNING-DECISION MAKING WILL
BE A TOUGH TASK THIS EVENING. ETA SHOWS STORMS DEVELOPING INTO AN
MCS OVER ND OVERNIGHT. WITH THAT IN MIND WILL WORD ZONES POSSIBLY
SEVERE. LOCAL K INDEX STUDY SHOWS THAT WITH THE VALUES IN PLACE
TODAY VERY HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE EXPECTED. CONCERN THEN GOES TO FLASH
FLOODING DUE TO SATURATED GROUND MANY AREAS. FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE IS
IN THE 1 TO 3 INCH RANGE MOST OF CWA. WILL ISSUE WATCH FOR FLASH
FLOOD...BUT WITH NO STORMS DEVELOPING YET...WILL BE CAREFUL NOT TO
OVERDUE WATCH COVERAGE AREA. WILL CONFINE IT TO THE WEST FOR NOW AND
UPDATE IF NEEDED.

SYSTEM PULLS INTO MINNESOTA FRIDAY AND SURFACE TROF CROSSES FROM
CENTRAL TO EASTERN ND. THIS ALLOWS LOWER DEW POINT AIR INTO THE
WEST...BUT THE EAST HEATS UP WITH DEW ONLY FALLING TO THE LOWER 60S.
UNCOMFORTABLE EAST...BUT NO STORMS EXPECTED AS SUBSIDENCE WILL BE
STRONG. NEXT CHANCE STORMS SATURDAY MORNING WEST...SPREADING
EAST.

.BIS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR WESTERN THIRD OF ND TONIGHT...TO
INCLUDE CROSBY...ISN...WATFORD CITY...KILLDEER...DIK...D04...HEI
...ELGIN.

JP MARTIN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 6, 6:03 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
603 PM CDT THU JUL 06 2000

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

0115 PM    20 NNE TURTLE LAKE        ND   .88 INCH HAIL
07/06/00   MCLEAN                         REPORTED BY SKYWARN
                                          STORM SPOTTER.

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, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Sheridan	43 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

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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.