Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 401
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 8, 2002, 8:00 PM MDT for 20 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2002, 8:00 PM MDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2002, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Adams County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stark County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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.
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 10:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, Stark | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 10:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 10:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster, Wells | 52 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, 12:10 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Eddy | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barnes, Burleigh, Cass, Dickey, Eddy, Emmons and 20 more | 5 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.