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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 10, 2002Billings County, Dunn County, Stark County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2002, 1:33 AM MDT for Billings County, Dunn County, Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 2002, 1:33 AM MDT (07:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2002, 7:30 AM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Billings County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -541 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 388 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KBIS 100733
FFWBIS
NDC007-025-089-101330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
130 AM MDT MON JUN 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BILLINGS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
  DUNN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
  STARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DICKINSON

* UNTIL 730 AM MDT

* AT 130 AM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN FROM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE AREA.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

LAT...LON 4672 10353 4668 10229 4752 10239 4717 10349

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 12:15 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Slope	60 min
Jun 10, 12:49 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	56 min
Jun 10, 1:27 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn	63 min
Jun 10, 2:26 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	64 min
Jun 10, 2:28 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	62 min
Jun 10, 3:09 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton, Oliver	51 min
Jun 10, 3:22 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Ward	53 min
Jun 10, 4:03 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Sheridan	57 min
Jun 10, 4:56 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce, Wells	49 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.