Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2002, 9:51 PM MDT for Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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 8, 2002, 9:51 PM MDT (03:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2002, 10:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Morton County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 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, 10:14 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Hebron, 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, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KBIS 090351 SVRBIS NDC059-090445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 949 PM MDT SAT JUN 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1045 PM MDT * AT 949 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GLEN ULLIN...OR ABOUT 38 MILES EAST OF DICKINSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GLEN ULLIN AT 955 PM MDT HEBRON AT 1000 PM MDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 4673 10209 4674 10175 4697 10141 4698 10209 $$ JP MARTIN
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, 8:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings | 56 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, 9:58 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
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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.