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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 25, 2001Adams County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2001, 1:08 AM MDT for Adams County, North Dakota. It was in force for 37 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 25, 2001, 1:08 AM MDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2001, 1:45 AM MDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Adams County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 4111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -220 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KBIS 250709
SVRBIS

NDC001-250745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
108 AM MDT MON JUN 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL AND EASTERN ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 145 AM MDT

* AT 108 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF H[AYNES...OR ABOUT 50 MILES
  EAST OF BOWMAN...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT RURAL ADAMS COUNTY
  

LAT...LON 4596 10262 4595 10218 4618 10219 4625 10256

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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 24, 2:10 PM MDT, 10 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:10 PM MDT, 10 hours 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
310 PM CDT SUN JUN 24 2001

MODELS INDICATE CAP OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL ND THROUGH THE
NIGHT...STRONGEST TO THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL. TSTORMS WILL
LIKELY FORM IN EASTERN MONTANA AGAIN THIS EVENING AND MOVE ACROSS
NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL ND THROUGH THE NIGHT. THE MODELS HAVE
BEEN TRYING TO MOVE THE RIDGE EAST...AND IN LATEST RUN...MOVE THE
RIDGE EAST OF THE STATE ON MONDAY. STILL 700 MB TEMPS FORECAST TO BE
AROUND 14 ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL PARTS OF THE STATE THROUGH
MIDDAY MONDAY INHIBITING THE CHANCE OF TSTORMS. NOW APPEARS THAT
BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY WILL SHIFT INTO THE EAST BY
EVENING WITH THE SURFACE LOW. MODELS INDICATE DRYING LOWER LEVELS IN
THE NORTHWEST FLOW BEHIND THE LOW.  MOISTURE WILL FILTER BACK INTO
THE SOUTHWEST ON TUESDAY...AND WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF TSTORMS IN THE
WEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL TUESDAY NIGHT. IN THE EXTENDED WILL KEEP A
CHANCE OF TSTORMS IN THE FORECAST WED THROUGH FRI. ALTHOUGH CURRENT
MRF SHOWS RIDGING AT 500 MB...DEVELOPMENT OF LEE SIDE LOW IN MONTANA
PROVIDES A FOCAL POINT FOR TSTORM DEVELOPMENT AND ADVECTION INTO THE
STATE. BEST CHANCE WOULD LIKELY BE WESTERN COUNTIES.

.BIS...NONE.
TSW

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 24, 10:57 PM MDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

ZCZC BISLSRBIS ALL

TTAA00 KBIS DDHHMM

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND

1157 PM CDT SUN JUN 24 2001

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

           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1005 PM    SHERWOOD                  ND   TORNADO

06/24/01   RENVILLE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

                                          BRIEF TOUCHDOWN

1030 PM    4N MOHALL                 ND   TORNADO

06/24/01   RENVILLE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

                                          BRIEF TOUCHDOWN

1030 PM    6W ANTLER                 ND   TORNADO

06/24/01   BOTTINEAU                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

                                          BRIEF TOUCHDOWN

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 8:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Renville	57 min
Jun 24, 9:08 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Renville	52 min
Jun 24, 9:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	46 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.