Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2002, 5:12 PM MDT for Adams County, Grant County, Hettinger County, North Dakota. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2002, 5:12 PM MDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2002, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Adams County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 5:15 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 M | Hettinger, ND | |
| Aug 16, 5:30 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Elgin, ND | Estimated 60 mph winds accompanied the storm which destroyed a silo and damaged several other farm outbuildings. Numerous tree limbs down around Lake Tschida. |
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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 16, 1:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 1:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
200 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002
STRONG MID LEVEL TROUGH WILL SWING RAPIDLY THROUGH OUR FORECAST
AREA. AT THE SURFACE A LOW WILL MOVE TO NEAR BISMARCK AT 00Z AND
THEN RAPIDLY TO GFK BY 06Z. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL FOLLOW THE LOW
WITH ENVIRONMENTAL WINDS TO 45 MPH. ALSO...STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLY SEVERE...WILL RIDE AHEAD OF THE FRONT LATER
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
BECAUSE THE SYSTEM IS MOVING SO RAPIDLY WINDS WILL LIKELY BE
SUBSIDING IN THE WEST ALREADY SATURDAY. I WILL CONTINUE THE CURRENT
WINDS ADVISORIES AS THE NEW MODEL RUNS SUPPORT THEM.
A WEAK SHORT WAVE MAY BRING A FEW AFTERNOON AND EVENING
THUNDERSHOWERS TO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE STATE SUNDAY.
.BIS...WIND ADVISORY WEST......TONIGHT...............ISN..DIK..HEI
CENTRAL..TONIGHT AND SATURDAY..MOT..BIS..JMS
RSLIn the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 16, 4:02 PM MDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
502 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0429 PM BEACH ND 68 MPH TSTM GUST
08/16/02 GOLDEN VALLEY REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.
0458 PM GRASSY BUTTE ND .88 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 MCKENZIE REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.Local storm report, Aug 16, 4:59 PM MDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
559 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0515 PM MEDORA ND 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/16/02 BILLINGS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0528 PM BOWMAN ARPT ND 61 MPH TSTM GUST
08/16/02 BOWMAN REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.
0530 PM BELFIELD ND 65 MPH TSTM GUST
08/16/02 STARK REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0553 PM HALLIDAY ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 DUNN REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley | 54 min |
| Aug 16, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, Stark | 65 min |
| Aug 16, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope | 56 min |
| Aug 16, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mercer, Morton, Oliver | 63 min |
| Aug 16, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton, Sioux | 52 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.