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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 2, 2003Billings County, Golden Valley County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2003, 11:06 PM MDT for Billings County, Golden Valley County, North Dakota. It was in force for 39 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 2, 2003, 11:06 PM MDT (05:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2003, 11:45 PM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Billings County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 224 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:07 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
Jul 2, 10:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 1473 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

191 
WUUS53 KBIS 030506
SVRBIS
NDC007-033-030545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1106 PM MDT WED JUL 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BILLINGS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
  GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1145 PM MDT

* AT 1106 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 43 MILES NORTH OF SENTINEL BUTTE
  TO 42 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SENTINEL BUTTE...OR FROM 51 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF WILLISTON TO 60 MILES EAST OF MILES CITY...MOVING     
  EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY AT 1150 PM MDT
  RURAL BILLINGS COUNTY AT 1150 PM MDT

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MEDORA...FAIRFIELD AND
  FRYBURG

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM MDT
THURSDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4729 10397 4664 10395 4668 10332 4730 10320

$$
LEBLANG

What 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 Jul 2, 2:00 PM MDT, 9 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:00 PM MDT, 9 hours 6 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
300 PM CDT WED JUL 02 2003

MAIN CONCERNS WILL BE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TONIGHT AND THURSDAY.
THEN AGAIN IN EARLY PORTION OF EXTENDED PERIOD.

GFS SHOWING SOME CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK PROBLEMS EARLY WHICH SEEMS TO
PUSH CDFNT EWD FASTER THAN ETA. BESIDES DIFFERENCES IN FRONTAL POSN
EARLY WILL USE AN ETA/GFS BLEND.

CURRENTLY...CAP STILL HOLDING OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA BEHIND
MORNING CONVECTION THAT SPREAD ACROSS NCNTRL CWA. OVER FAR SOUTH
CENTRAL PTN CWA IS PARTICULAR CONCERN THIS AFTN JUST N OF MSAS
DEPICTED SFC LOW WITH SFC CONVERGENCE TAKING PLACE AND INCREASING
SFC HEATING PUSHING TEMPS CLOSE TO CONVECTIVE TEMPS. THIS AREA SEEMS
MOST LIKELY FOR TSTM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING.

BEYOND THAT...COULD SEE A REPEAT TOMORROW MORNING...ALTHOUGH FARTHER
SOUTH...WITH CONVECTION SPILLING INTO CWA FROM THE WEST. ALTHOUGH
SFC FNT MOVES THROUGH CWA...RESIDUAL MOISTURE REMAINS BEHIND
CDFNT...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHERN CWA. INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN OVER
SOUTHEAST HALF OF CWA THROUGH THURSDAY. SO WITH CONTINUED IMPULSES
IN SOUTHWEST FLOW...WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF TSTMS THROUGH THURSDAY.

THING CLEAR OUT THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY WITH MORE OF A ZONAL
THEN NORTHWEST FLOW. IT WILL REMAIN HOT AND HUMID OVER SOUTHEAST CWA
ON THURSDAY WHILE NORTHWEST HALF DRIES OUT A BIT. FRIDAY AND
SATURDAY WILL BE CLOSER TO NORMAL TEMPS ACROSS CWA.

IN THE EXTENDED...NEXT WAVE APPROACHES AREA SATURDAY NIGHT. PAST TWO
RUNS OF GFS HAVE BEEN SLOWER...AND THE LAST RUN HAS STRENGTHENED
WAVE QUITE A BIT. WILL INTRODUCE A CHANCE OF PCPN SATURDAY NIGHT AND
SUNDAY AS WAVE MOVES THROUGH. BEST CHANCE FOR US ATTIM LOOKS TO BE
SUNDAY BUT ADDED SAT NIGHT TO BLEND IN WITH SURROUNDING WFOS. FOR
NOW WILL KEEP REMAINDER OF THE EXTENDED FCST DRY.

.BIS...NONE

TWH

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 3:39 AM MDT, 19 hours 27 minutes before

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-031000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
439 AM CDT WED JUL 2 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND THIS EVENING.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...
ESPECIALLY CENTRAL. MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED

TURNER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 6:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

ZCZC BISLSRISN ALL
TTAA00 KBIS DDHHMM

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
730 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0645 AM    26 N WILLISTON            ND   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/02/03   WILLIAMS                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

THOMSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 8:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	58 min
Jul 2, 11:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke	49 min
Jul 2, 11:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	58 min
Jul 2, 11:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	64 min
Jul 3, 12:05 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	40 min
Jul 3, 12:14 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	61 min
Jul 3, 12:36 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Stark	54 min
Jul 3, 12:45 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	60 min
Jul 3, 12:50 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	40 min
Jul 3, 1:20 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Morton, Oliver	55 min
Jul 3, 1:40 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Renville, Ward	50 min
Jul 3, 2:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Sheridan	63 min
Jul 3, 5:57 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton, Oliver	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.