Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2003, 5:47 PM MDT for Grant County, North Dakota. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 27, 2003, 5:47 PM MDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2003, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Grant County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 3:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 429 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 519 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
993
WUUS53 KBIS 272347
SVRBIS
NDC037-280030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
546 PM MDT WED AUG 27 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
* UNTIL 630 PM MDT
* AT 546 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CARSON...OR ABOUT 46 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
BISMARCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
CARSON AT 550 PM MDT
LARK AT 610 PM MDT
RURAL NORTHEASTERN GRANT COUNTY AT 615 PM MDT
STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY FROM THIS STORM...BUT THERE WILL BE
LITTLE RAIN. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
LAT...LON 4668 10206 4607 10167 4630 10108 4637 10133
4662 10133
$$
SKWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 27, 2:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 2:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 310 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2003 PROBLEMS THIS EVENING...FIRE WEATHER THREAT...SEVERE WEATHER THREAT... DEEPENING LOW PRESSURE OVER EASTERN MT WILL MOVE OVER WESTCENTRAL ND THIS EVENING. LOW LEVEL JET ADVECTING MID 50S TO NEAR 60 DEW POINTS INTO REGION. THUNDERSTORMS POTENTIAL LOOKS GOOD CENTRAL FOR TONIGHT. RED FLAG WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 8 PM TONIGHT. AS SFC LOW DEPARTS THURSDAY...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL USHER IN MUCH COOLER AIR SO FIRE WEATHER THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH. CYCLONIC FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE THE THREAT FOR SHOWERS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH AKOTA THUNSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. SFC HIGH WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION OVER THE WEEKEND...WITH THE NEXT THRAT FOR PRECIPITAION ON TUESDAY. AUTUMN LIKE TEMPERATURES WILL BE THE RULE INTO THE EXTENDED. .BIS...RED FLAG WARNING...ALL ZONES...UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING WA
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 27, 3:50 AM MDT, 13 hours 57 minutes before
NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-280945- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 450 AM CDT WED AUG 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA TODAY AND EARLY EVENING DUE TO STRONG SOUTH WINDS AND POSSIBLE DRY LIGHTNING ACTIVITY. WINDS WILL SWITCH TO THE NORTHWEST GUSTING TO 25 MPH IN THE WEST THIS AFTERNOON AND SWITCH TO THE NORTHWEST...REMAINING GUSTY OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA LATER THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. TURNER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 27, 4:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
543 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0539 PM KILLDEER ND 63 MPH TSTM GUST
08/27/03 DUNN REPORTED BY AUTOMATED
WEATHER STATION.
NNNNLocal storm report, Aug 27, 5:32 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
632 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0605 PM 15 E HAYNES ND WIND DAMAGE
08/27/03 ADAMS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
FOUR INCH TREE LIMBS
DOWN IN THE TOWN OF
NORTH LEMMON.
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn | 66 min |
| Aug 27, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams | 39 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.