Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2002, 7:02 PM CDT for Dickey County, North Dakota. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2002, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dickey County, ND
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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 22, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Guelph, ND | |
| Jun 22, 7:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ellendale, 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 22, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 3369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KBIS 230002 SVRBIS NDC021-230100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 701 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN DICKEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 701 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF ELLENDALE...OR ABOUT 58 MILES SOUTH OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GUELPH AT 720 PM CDT FULLERTON AT 725 PM CDT LUDDEN AT 735 PM CDT HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4594 9872 4594 9803 4628 9801 4628 9853
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | Dickey | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams | 59 min |
| Jun 22, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger | 54 min |
| Jun 22, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant | 66 min |
| Jun 22, 11:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | Dickey | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, Mercer, Stark | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mercer, Morton, Oliver | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 66 min |
| Jun 23, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton, Oliver | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 63 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.