Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Bismarck, ND

Issued

Jul 18, 2001, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)

Expired

Jul 18, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT

In force

55 min

Issued by

NWS Bismarck, ND

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stutsman County, ND

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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.

000 
WUUS53 KBIS 190021
SVRBIS

NDC093-190115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
720 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 720 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ELDRIDGE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF
  JAMESTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BUCHANAN AT 740 PM CDT
  PINGREE AT 745 PM CDT
  SPIRITWOOD LAKE AT 800 PM CDT
  COURTENAY AT 815 PM CDT

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4692 9910 4680 9890 4713 9849 4731 9851
          4731 9892

JENSEN

NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 18, 2:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
240 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

AREA RADARS AND SATELLITE INDICATE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN
EASTERN MONTANA MOVING NORTHEAST WITH AN UPPER LEVEL VORT MAX.
DEWPOINTS IN WESTERN ND ARE IN THE UPPER 50S AND LOWER 60S WITH
DEWPOINTS IN THE LOWER 70S IN CENTRAL ND. AN INVERTED TROUGH IS JUST
EAST OF A LINE FROM MINOT TO BISMARCK. THE INDICIES INDICATE
INSTABILITY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. CONSEQUENTLY EXPECT
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION AGAIN THIS EVENING...WITH THE
POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS GREATEST ALONG AND EAST OF THE
TROUGH. WITH THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE EAST OF THE STATE AND AN UPPER
LEVEL TROUGH TO THUE WEST THROUGH THE WEEKEND...DON'T SEE AN END TO
THE CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL UNTIL MONDAY.  MOS SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE
WARM ON HIGHS AND WILL TREND TOWARD AVN.

.BIS...NONE.
TSW

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.