Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2001, 8:16 PM CDT for McKenzie County, North Dakota. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2001, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2001, 9:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County McKenzie County, ND
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 493 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
385 WUUS53 KBIS 110116 RRA SVRISN NDC053-110220- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 816 PM CDT (716 PM MDT) SUN JUN 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLISTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MCKENZIE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 920 PM CDT * AT 810 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF FAIRVIEW MONTANA... MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CARTWRIGHT AT 820 PM CDT ALEXANDER AT 845 PM CDT THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK (NORTH UNIT) AT 900 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS MR
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 Jun 10, 2:15 PM CDT, 6 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:15 PM CDT, 6 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 215 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2001 TSTM THREAT MAIN FCST PRLBM AGAIN TDA. NOT A BIG DIFFERENCE IN MODELS...BUT HAVE GENLY FLWD AVN. GUD POTENTIAL AGAIN FOR SVR WX...ALTHO SITN NOT QUITE AS CLR CUT AS YSTDY. JET MAX MOVG THRU SRN CANADA IN COMBO WI SFC LO AND LO LVL WRM ADV WL PROVIDE THE LIFT TO RELEASE THE INSTABILITY. AGREE WI MODEL IDEA THAT STORMS WL BE LATE IN THE DAY AND OVERNIGHT. MSAS SHWS SFC DEWPTS HAVE DROPPED A LOT IN THE W AND NW...NOTE 42 DEWPT AT ISN. WHEREAS...DEWPTS HAVE CONTD TO RISE SCNTL AND SE. LI/CAPE FM MODELS SEEM TO FAVOR BEST SVR THREAT ACRS THE S. FARTHER S...STG CAP TO CONVECTION. WL CONT MENTION OF SVR ACRS THE S TNGT. DO NOT BLV PRECIP AMTS WL APPRCH FFG VALUES. AFTER CONVECTIVE SYSTEM EXITS MON MRNG...GET ABT A 24 HR BREAK BEFORE AFFECTS OF BIG UPPER LOW TO BE FELT. FIRST WDSPRD PRECIP EVENT ASSOCD WI THIS SHUD BE LATE TUE AFTN AND TUE NITE. LOOKING FARTHER OUT...SUBSTANTIAL PRECIP TO CONTINUE THRU WED BEFORE TAPERING OFF DURING THE DAY ON THU. FRI LUKS DRY...BUT MRF DVLPG A MOR WLY FLW OVR AREA INTO THE WKND...RATHER THAN RDGG AS ERYR FCST. SO CUD BE SOME THREAT OF PRECIP ALL 7 DAYS. TEMPS WL BE BLO NORM THRU THE PRD. .BIS...NONE. FORS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 7:22 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
NDZ001-009-017-110115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 722 PM CDT (622 PM MDT) SUN JUN 10 2001 A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA BETWEEN 700 AND 800 PM CDT. EXPECT PERIODS OF LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL IN THUNDERSTORMS. MR
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 7:23 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
NDZ001-009-017-110115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 722 PM CDT (622 PM MDT) SUN JUN 10 2001 A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA BETWEEN 700 AND 800 PM CDT. EXPECT PERIODS OF LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL IN THUNDERSTORMS. MR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, McLean, Ward | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 8:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.