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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 14, 2001Kidder County, Wells County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2001, 7:50 PM CDT for Kidder County, Wells County, North Dakota. It was in force for 55 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: Aug 14, 2001, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Kidder County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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
Aug 14, 8:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Tuttle, 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 2390 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

522 
WUUS53 KBIS 150054
SVRBIS
NDC043-103-150145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
750 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN KIDDER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  SOUTHERN WELLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 750 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HURDSFIELD...OR ABOUT     
  53 MILES NORTHEAST OF BISMARCK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.       
  ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST WEST OF HURDSFIELD...MOVING   
  EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  
  HURDSFIELD AT 755 PM CDT
  CHASELEY AT 800 PM 
  BOWDON AT 805 PM 
  TUTTLE AT 815 PM 
  HEATON AT 820 PM 
  ROBINSON AT 830 PM 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4768 10004 4706 10008 4697 9951 4768 9947

VINING

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 Aug 14, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
330 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 2001

A SURFACE LOW EXTENDS FROM SOUTHERN MANITOBA TO SOUTHWEST NORTH
DAKOTA AT 300 PM CDT. DEW POINTS EAST OF THE LOW ARE IN THE 60S WITH
GOOD CAPE. THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER NORTH OF DEVILS
LAKE HAVE BEEN MOVING EAST. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF DIME SIZED
HAIL WITH THESE STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST WITH THE
LOW THIS EVENING. THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL NOT PASS OVER THE
FORECAST AREA UNTIL AFTERNOON WEDNESAY. WILL BUMP THE WINDS UP A
LITTLE OVER PREVIOUS FORECAST. GOOD SUBSIDENCE AND STRONG WINDS
ALOFT SHOULD TRANSFER TO THE SURFACE OVERCOMING A WEAK SURFACE
GRADIENT.  THE MODELS INDICATE THE POTENTIAL FOR PRECIP ON THE BACK
SIDE OF THE TROUGH IN THE COLD AIR ADVECTION...BUT IT APPEARS THE
BEST CHANCE WILL BE TO THE EAST OF OUR FORECAST AREA. A SHARP UPPER
LEVEL RIDGE WILL MOVE OVER THE ROCKIES BY FRIDAY MORNING WITH
ANOTHER SHORT WAVE/TROUGH MOVING THROUGH MANITOBA.  THE BEST CHANCE
OF PRECIP WILL AGAIN BE WELL EAST OF FORECAST AREA.

.BIS...NONE.
TSW

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 14, 3:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
303 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 2001

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

0250 PM    BELCOURT                  ND   .75 INCH HAIL
08/14/01   ROLETTE                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Aug 14, 7:17 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
717 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 2001

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

0710 PM    7 SW UNDERWOOD            ND   .75 INCH HAIL
08/14/01   MCLEAN                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Aug 14, 7:32 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
732 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 2001

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

0728 PM    5 E MC CLUSKY             ND   1 INCH HAIL
08/14/01   SHERIDAN                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean	53 min
Aug 14, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	52 min
Aug 14, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Wells	46 min
Aug 14, 9:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Foster	36 min
Aug 14, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder	34 min
Aug 15, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	53 min
Aug 15, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	55 min

Nearby

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

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.