Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2002, 5:55 PM MDT for Golden Valley County, North Dakota. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 8, 2002, 5:55 PM MDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2002, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Golden Valley County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 235 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 6:15 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Beach, ND | Event duration of 20 minutes. |
| Jun 8, 6:43 PM MDT | Hail 2.75 | Sentinel Butte, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 2560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KBIS 082355 SVRBIS NDC033-090045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 554 PM MDT SAT JUN 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 554 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEACH...OR ABOUT 59 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOWMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BEACH AT 600 PM MDT SENTINEL BUTTE AT 605 PM MDT TROTTERS AT 630 PM MDT JUST NORTH OF GOLVA AT 600 PM MDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL IN MONTANA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
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.