Alert archive / North Dakota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004

Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 10, 2004Renville County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2004, 1:46 AM CDT for Renville 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: Jul 10, 2004, 1:46 AM CDT (06:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2004, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Renville County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2022 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KBIS 100654
FFWBIS
NDC075-100945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
146 AM CDT SAT JUL 10 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL RENVILLE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 445 AM CDT

* AT 146 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE 
  OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS CENTRAL RENVILLE
  COUNTY. ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE FORMING WEST OF RENVILLE COUNTY
  ...IN WARD AND MOUNTRAIL COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE OVER
  RENVILLE BY 3 AM CDT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES OVER
  THE PAST HOUR...COMBINED WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH WILL CAUSE
  FLOODING OF RURAL STREAMS AND ROADS...AND STREETS IN URBAN AREAS. 

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. AS LITTLE AS 6 INCHES OF WATER MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL
OF YOUR VEHICLE. TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST
VEHICLES INCLUDING SUVS AND PICKUPS. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER
SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE
VEHICLE RELATED.

LAT...LON 4875 10183 4851 10183 4855 10146 4884 10153

$$
WAA

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KBIS 100936
FFSBIS
NDC075-101000-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
436 AM CDT SAT JUL 10 2004

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

AT 436 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT
PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND WERE NO LONGER
PRODUCING FLOODING RAINS...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE.


$$

WAA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail, Ward	31 min
Jul 10, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	26 min
Jul 10, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville	24 min
Jul 10, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	66 min
Jul 10, 5:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Oliver	3 hr
Jul 10, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	62 min
Jul 10, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder	54 min
Jul 10, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Kidder	25 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.