Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Bismarck, ND
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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Sheridan | 59 min |
| Jul 13, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Sioux | 58 min |
| Jul 13, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Wells | 64 min |
| Jul 13, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons | 66 min |
| Jul 13, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Logan | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Renville | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 50 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.