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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 14, 2003Dickey County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2003, 12:29 AM CDT for Dickey County, North Dakota. It was in force for 61 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 14, 2003, 12:29 AM CDT (05:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2003, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dickey County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2003-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2251 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2003-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2251 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-228 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

990 
WUUS53 KBIS 140529
SVRBIS
NDC021-140630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1229 AM CDT MON JUL 14 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DICKEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 130 AM CDT

* AT 1229 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MERRICOURT...OR ABOUT 52 MILES SOUTH OF
  JAMESTOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ELLENDALE...FULLERTON AT 1240 AM CDT
  GUELPH AT 1255 AM CDT
  LUDDEN...OAKES AT 100 AM CDT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOS WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

LAT...LON 4627 9875 4594 9885 4594 9803 4618 9805

$$
TWH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISSheridan59 min
Jul 13, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean60 min
Jul 13, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISSioux58 min
Jul 13, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWells64 min
Jul 13, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons66 min
Jul 13, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons, Logan55 min
Jul 14, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke, Renville60 min
Jul 14, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWard59 min
Jul 14, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcHenry65 min
Jul 14, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.