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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 13, 2003Stark County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2003, 2:42 PM MDT for Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 48 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: Jul 13, 2003, 2:42 PM MDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2003, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stark 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
Jul 13, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -624 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1957 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

234 
WUUS53 KBIS 132042
SVRBIS
NDC089-132130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
241 PM MDT SUN JUL 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DICKINSON

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 241 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DICKINSON...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  DICKINSON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DICKINSON AT 245 PM MDT
  RURAL EASTERN STARK COUNTY AT 310 PM MDT

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT SUNDAY
EVENING FOR NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4696 10287 4678 10285 4672 10211 4695 10216

$$
RSL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 2:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	53 min
Jul 13, 3:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	56 min
Jul 13, 4:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	23 min
Jul 13, 4:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Ward	54 min
Jul 13, 4:49 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Mercer	26 min
Jul 13, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant	60 min
Jul 13, 5:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, McLean, Sheridan	63 min
Jul 13, 5:40 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean	35 min
Jul 13, 5:56 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Sheridan	34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.