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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 23, 2002Foster County, Wells County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2002, 10:02 PM CDT for Foster County, Wells County, North Dakota. It was in force for 58 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 23, 2002, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Foster County, ND, Wells County, ND

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 23, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 2421 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.4
Supercell composite: 14.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KBIS 240302
SVRBIS
NDC031-103-240400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1002 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN WELLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  FOSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1002 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF SYKESTON...OR ABOUT 44
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BORDULAC AT 1010 PM CDT
  BARLOW AT 1015 PM CDT
  GRACE CITY AT 1045 PM CDT
  JUANITA AT 1050 PM CDT
  GLENFIELD AT 1055 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4759 9928 4734 9965 4735 9853 4760 9855

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer	54 min
Jun 23, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	58 min
Jun 23, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh	33 min
Jun 23, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Ward	56 min
Jun 23, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder	61 min
Jun 23, 8:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry	24 min
Jun 23, 8:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	McHenry, Ward	4 hr
Jun 23, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce	36 min
Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	59 min
Jun 23, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	56 min
Jun 23, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Stutsman	55 min
Jun 23, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	59 min
Jun 23, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster	61 min
Jun 23, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	65 min
Jun 24, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	62 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.