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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 22, 2002Dunn County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2002, 3:13 AM MDT for Dunn County, North Dakota. It was in force for 62 min. 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 22, 2002, 3:13 AM MDT (09:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2002, 4:15 AM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dunn County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 643 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -239 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KBIS 220913
SVRBIS
NDC025-221015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
313 AM MDT SAT JUN 22 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DUNN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 415 AM MDT(515 AM CDT)

* AT 313 AM MDT(413 AM CDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DUNN CENTER...
  OR ABOUT 29 MILES NORTHEAST OF DICKINSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HALLIDAY...DODGE AT 330 AM MDT

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN BISMARCK.

LAT...LON 4723 10294 4707 10246 4720 10218 4776 10233
          4758 10284

VINING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 1:54 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn	66 min
Jun 22, 2:31 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Golden Valley	59 min
Jun 22, 3:01 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings	59 min
Jun 22, 3:27 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	63 min
Jun 22, 4:16 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn	59 min
Jun 22, 4:27 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mountrail, Ward	63 min
Jun 22, 4:40 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce	50 min
Jun 22, 5:29 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Ward	61 min
Jun 22, 6:14 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	61 min
Jun 22, 5:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm 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.