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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 29, 2004Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 2004, 9:19 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 2004, 9:19 PM CDT (02:19 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2004, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2004-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 368 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2004-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
368 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KBIS 300224
FFWBIS
NDC093-300515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
919 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA   

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 919 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN 14 MILES WEST
OF MONTPELIER WITH 3.58 INCHES FALLING IN ONE HOUR. ADDITIONAL 
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED UNTIL MIDNIGHT. DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED SECTIONS OF ROADS.

LAT...LON 4692 9935 4668 9934 4670 9851 4701 9851

$$
LM
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS73 KBIS 300523
FFSBIS
NDC093-300600-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1223 AM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHERN STUTSMAN COUNTY HAS BEEN 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

AT 1223 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT
PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA...THUS
THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

$$
RSL

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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.