Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2001, 7:46 PM CDT for McHenry County, North Dakota. It was in force for 44 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 17, 2001, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County McHenry County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1344 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KBIS 180050 SVRBIS NDC049-180130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 746 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MCHENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 746 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER UPHAM...OR ABOUT 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOTTINEAU...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BANTRY AT 800 PM CDT TOWNER AT 830 PM CDT 2 FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AROUND THE TOWN OF GLENBURN IN EXTREME SOUTHERN RENVILLE COUNTY IN THE PAST HALF HOUR AS THIS STORM DEVELOPED. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. LAT...LON 4861 10080 4851 10091 4819 10029 4851 10032 JENSEN &
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 17, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 300 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001 SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THE MODEL FORECAST WILL FORCE CHANGES TO GOING ZONES. FRONT IS NOT AS PROGRESSIVE AS PREVIOUSLY FORECAST AND THIS WILL LEAD TO A PROLONGED THREAT OF STORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. ETA HAS PICKED UP ON THIS...AND BECAUSE OF ITS BEST JOB ON THIS MORNINGS CONVECTION...HAVE OPTED TO FOLLOW IT FOR DETAILS. ETA/AVN MORE SIMILAR WITH NGM ODD BALL OUT. PROBLEM CONTINUES TO BE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES. ETA INDICATING THAT SURFACE BOUNDARY PASSING THROUGH TONIGHT WILL BE INVIGORATED BY H5 SHORT WAVE TROF FORECAST TO KDIK BY 12Z. WITH THIS FEATURE THE ETA BRINGS AN AREA OF /0.25-0.50/ QPF ACROSS THE CWA OVERNIGHT. AVN INDICATES THIS TO BE AN MCS AND DUMPS MORE THAN AN INCH AND A QUARTER ON BIS AREA BY 12Z MONDAY. THE FLY IN THIS OINMENT MAY TURN OUT TO BE AN MCS THAT COULD DEVELOP OVER E NEBRASKA/E SD/S MN/W IOWA. IF THIS MCS DEVELOPS IT COULD ROB THE MOISTURE FROM ND. HOWEVER...ENOUGH PARAMETERS COME TOGETHER OVER ND TO GO WITH SCT POPS TONIGHT...INCLUDING AN INCREASE IN LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN THE FORM OF 60 DEWS WHICH LEADS TO AN INCREASE IN INSTABILITY. CAPE VALUES 400-800 J/KG. HAVE OPTED TO INCLUDE SOME SEVERE WORDING AS COOL POOL ALOFT AND LOW WET BULB ZERO SHOULD SUPPORT HAIL. ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT DUE INFLUX OF H2 JET...NEARING 100 KNOTS. LEFTOVER CONVECTION LIKELY CE NTRAL AND EAST EARLY MONDAY MORNING. LOOKS LIKE DRY WEATHER TO COME IN WEDNESDAY AND HOLD THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND. TEMPERATURE CLIMBING ABOVE NORMAL LEVELS BY THURSDAY-FRIDAY TIME FRAME. .BIS...NONE. JP MARTIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 3:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
NDZ001-009-172226- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 326 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001 AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED INTO DIVIDE AND NORTHERN WILLIAMS COUNTIES. THIS ACTIVITY IS MOVING EAST AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO EFFECT THE AREA THROUGH 530 PM CDT. PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO BE LIGHT. BRIEF PERIODS OF MODERATE RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED IN SOME AREAS. ASSID
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 5:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
NDZ001-009-180100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 530 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE ACROSS NORTHEAST MONTANA AND MOVE INTO NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. ALTHOUGH SCATTERED THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND DAYMAGING HAIL. AS THESE STORMS PASS THROUGH SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING PA
Local storm report, Jun 17, 6:55 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
655 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
625 PM 8 NW ALEXANDER ND .75 SIZED HAIL
HEAVY RAIN
06/17/01 MCKENZIE STORM SPOTTER
PAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Ward | 61 min |
| Jun 17, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Mountrail, Ward | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings | 28 min |
| Jun 18, 4:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 67 min |
| Jun 18, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams | 66 min |
| Jun 18, 5:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 6:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Sioux | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2001Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.