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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 18, 2001Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2001, 8:16 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 59 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: Jul 18, 2001, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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
Jul 18, 8:24 PM CDT	Hail 1	Jamestown, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 18, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 2623 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1396 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 4.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KBIS 190117
SVRBIS

NDC093-190215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
816 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
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF JAMESTOWN

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 816 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  JAMESTOWN AND RURAL EASTERN STUTSMAN COUNTY AT 830 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.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 4702 9896 4680 9885 4678 9847 4723 9851
          4723 9882

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 Jul 18, 2:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 2:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 18, 7:45 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND

745 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

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

           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0742 PM    ELDRIDGE                  ND   .75 INCH HAIL

07/18/01   STUTSMAN

Local storm report, Jul 18, 7:55 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND

755 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

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

           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0751 PM    ELDRIDGE                  ND   1 INCH HAIL

07/18/01   STUTSMAN                       REPORTED BY HAM RADIO

                                          OPERATOR.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	55 min
Jul 18, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan, McIntosh	67 min
Jul 18, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	60 min
Jul 18, 8:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Stutsman	38 min
Jul 18, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	64 min
Jul 18, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	62 min
Jul 18, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	45 min
Jul 18, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan, McIntosh	53 min
Jul 18, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman	60 min
Jul 18, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	56 min
Jul 18, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	31 min
Jul 18, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams	44 min
Jul 19, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sioux	59 min
Jul 19, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	51 min
Jul 19, 3:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Logan	55 min
Jul 19, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	62 min
Jul 19, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	62 min
Jul 19, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	60 min
Jul 19, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Mountrail	62 min
Jul 19, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burke, Mountrail	45 min
Jul 19, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Ward	29 min
Jul 19, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Ward	30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.