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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 3, 2003Burleigh County, McLean County, Sheridan County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2003, 3:12 AM CDT for Burleigh County, McLean County, Sheridan County, North Dakota. It was in force for 63 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 3, 2003, 3:12 AM CDT (08:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2003, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Burleigh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Sheridan County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:15 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, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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.

774 
WUUS53 KBIS 030812
SVRBIS
NDC015-055-083-030915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
312 AM CDT THU JUL 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BURLEIGH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  EASTERN MCLEAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  SHERIDAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 415 AM CDT

* AT 312 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 24 MILES NORTH OF MERCER TO
  WILTON...OR FROM 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MINOT TO 28 MILES NORTH OF
  BISMARCK...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  REGAN AT 330 AM CDT
  MCCLUSKY AT 340 AM CDT
  DENHOFF...WING AT 355 AM CDT
  ARENA AT 405 AM CDT
  MARTIN...GOODRICH AT 410 AM CDT

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT
THURSDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4781 10086 4704 10083 4704 10016 4782 10011

$$
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 3, 2:15 AM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:15 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
215 AM CDT THU JUL 3 2003

CONCERNS WILL BE THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND THE CHANCE OF
SEVERE.

CURRENT RADAR SHOWING LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THRU
WEST CENTRAL ND AND LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS FAR EASTERN MT MOVING
EAST. MAIN CONCERNS WITH THE STORMS ARE WINDS...SOME HAIL AND
VERY HEAVY RAINS.

MID LEVEL WAVE MOVING THRU WESTERN ND THIS MORNING WILL QUICKLY MOVE
EAST TODAY WITH MAIN MID LEVEL LIFT ACROSS SOUTHERN CWA...ALTHOUGH
SURFACE BOUNDARY EAST AND SOUTH OF CWA...RESIDUAL MOISTURE REMAINS
BEHIND SYSTEM ALONG WITH PLENTY OF INSTABILITY. SPC PLACES PARTS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL/EAST CENTRAL CWA IN SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE.

PATTERN DRIES OUT THURSDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY WITH A ZONAL/NORTHWEST
FLOW PATTERN OVER THE REGION. SURFACE HIGH BUILDS OVER THE REGION
SAME TIME PERIOD AND WILL BRING A MORE NORMAL LIKE TEMPERATURES ACROSS
THE CWA.

NEXT CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION RE-APPEARS LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY
WITH NEXT SHORTWAVE ENERGY MOVES THROUGH. NO CHANGE IN THE EXTENDED.

CURRENT SEVERE TSTM WATCH RUNS TIL 400 AM CDT..NOT SURE IF ANOTHER
WATCH WILL BE ISSUED...EXTENDED...OR DROPPED...WILL WAIT TO SEND
ZFP UNTIL THE DECISION IS MADE.

.BIS...NONE

RGT

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 4:39 AM CDT, 22 hours 33 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 3, 1:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

ZCZC BISLSRBIS ALL

TTAA00 KBIS DDHHMM

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND

115 AM CDT THU JUL 03 2003

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

           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0110 AM    KENMARE                   ND   1 INCH HAIL

07/03/03   WARD                           REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

NNNN

Local storm report, Jul 3, 1:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
142 AM CDT THU JUL 03 2003

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

0100 AM    EPPING                    ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/03/03   WILLIAMS                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0130 AM    GRASSY BUTTE              ND   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/03/03   MCKENZIE                       REPORTED BY COOP OBSERVER.

0130 AM    GRASSY BUTTE              ND   70 MPH WIND (ESTIMATED)
07/03/03   MCKENZIE                       REPORTED BY COOP OBSERVER.

BURKE

NNNN

Local storm report, Jul 3, 1:51 AM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND

151 AM CDT THU JUL 03 2003

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

           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0135 AM    (DIK)DICKINSON MUNI ARPT  ND   60 MPH TSTM GUST

07/03/03   STARK                          REPORTED BY OFFICIAL

                                          OBSERVATION (ASOS)

Local storm report, Jul 3, 3:11 AM CDT, 1 minute before

ZCZC BISLSRBIS ALL

TTAA00 KBIS DDHHMM

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND

311 AM CDT THU JUL 03 2003

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

           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0302 AM    GARRISON                  ND   61 MPH TSTM GUST

07/03/03   MCLEAN                         ASOS RECORDED MAX WIND

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	58 min
Jul 3, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	39 min
Jul 3, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke	49 min
Jul 3, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	58 min
Jul 3, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	64 min
Jul 3, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	40 min
Jul 3, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	61 min
Jul 3, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Stark	54 min
Jul 3, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	60 min
Jul 3, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	40 min
Jul 3, 2:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Morton, Oliver	55 min
Jul 3, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Renville, Ward	50 min
Jul 3, 6:57 AM CDT	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.