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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 8, 2002Billings County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2002, 8:49 PM MDT for Billings County, North Dakota. It was in force for 56 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 8, 2002, 8:49 PM MDT (02:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2002, 9:45 PM MDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Billings County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 207 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 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.

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, 7:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -266 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 490 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KBIS 090249
SVRBIS
NDC007-090345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
846 PM MDT SAT JUN 8 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BILLINGS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 945 PM MDT

* AT 846 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAIRFIELD...OR ABOUT 41
  MILES NORTHWEST OF DICKINSON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS WERE WERE MOVING TOWARDS MEDORA AND THE SOUTH UNIT OF 
  THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FAIRFIELD AT 900 PM MDT
  MEDORA AROUND 900 PM 

GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS AS
WELL AS HEAVY RAIN. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR
IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 4732 10366 4689 10365 4703 10307 4733 10310

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	60 min
Jun 8, 7:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	57 min
Jun 8, 8:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	3 hr
Jun 8, 9:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Stutsman	52 min
Jun 8, 9:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	54 min
Jun 8, 9:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman, Slope	62 min
Jun 8, 10:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Stark	58 min
Jun 8, 10:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Wells	52 min
Jun 8, 11:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	58 min
Jun 8, 11:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope	54 min
Jun 8, 11:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean	52 min
Jun 8, 11:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	66 min
Jun 8, 11:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster	59 min
Jun 9, 12:03 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Sheridan	57 min
Jun 9, 12:10 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	65 min
Jun 9, 2:24 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sheridan, Wells	66 min
Jun 9, 5:21 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	54 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.