Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Bismarck, ND

Issued

Jul 26, 2001, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)

Expired

Jul 26, 2001, 7:15 PM MDT

In force

54 min

Issued by

NWS Bismarck, ND

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Morton County, ND

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WUUS53 KBIS 270022
SVRBIS

NDC059-270115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
621 PM MDT THU JUL 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 621 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FLASHER...OR ABOUT 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  BISMARCK...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FLASHER AT 622 PM MDT
  ST. ANTHONY AT 650 PM MDT

HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY
MAY BE WASHED OUT. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO
RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA.

THIS STORM PRODUCED IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES OF RAIN NORTH OF CARSON.

LAT...LON 4657 10132 4640 10125 4642 10067 4679 10088

RSL

NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 26, 2:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
300 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2001

UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA TONIGHT AND FRIDAY
AND THE ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST WITH IT. WITH
DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S AND PLENTY OF PW LOOKS TSTMS WITH HEAVY RAIN
ARE LIKELY AS CONVECTION NOW IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN MONTANA MOVES
EAST WITH THE SHORT WAVE.  ISOLATED FLOODING FROM TSTORMS IS
POSSIBLE BUT WILL NOT ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AT THIS TIME. LOOKS
LIKE THERE WILL BE A BRIEF BREAK IN THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
SATURDAY AS A SHORT WAVE RIDGE MOVES OVER THE STATE AND DEWPOINTS
FALL AS A HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH SOUTHERN CANADA...BUT
WITH A NEW UPPER LEVEL TROUGH BECOMING INTRENCHED OVER THE WESTERN US
THE REST OF THE WEEK WILL BE A REPEAT OF THE LAST WEEK...SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE WITH TEMPS NEAR NORMAL.

.BIS...NONE.

TSW

In the hours before

NDZ001-009-017-262245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
446 PM CDT (346 PM MDT) THU JUL 26 2001

AT 440 PM CDT RADAR IN WILLISTON INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS
APPROACHING FROM NORTHEAST MONTANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING
TO THE EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND
OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING ARE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE PARTICULAR
STORMS...HOWEVER DIVIDE...WILLIAMS AND MCKENZIE COUNTICES STILL
REMAIN UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT. STAY
TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST.

RV

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.