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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 8, 2000Ward County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2000, 6:33 AM CDT for Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 2000, 6:33 AM CDT (11:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2000, 7:30 AM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ward County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2000-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 301 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2000-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

209 
WUUS53 KBIS 081135
SVRBIS
NDC101-081230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
633 AM CDT THU JUN 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL WARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MINOT

* UNTIL 730 AM CDT

* AT 633 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES WEST OF MINOT...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   DE LACS AT 645 AM CDT
   MINOT AT 655 AM CDT

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.

LAT...LON 4840 10178 4800 10179 4801 10108 4839 10113
RSL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 2:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWilliams55 min
Jun 8, 5:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail49 min
Jun 8, 6:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail, Ward28 min
Jun 8, 9:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau60 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.