Alert archive / North Dakota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004

Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 10, 2004Oliver County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT for Oliver 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, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Oliver County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 804 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -244 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 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.

000 
WGUS53 KBIS 102202
FFWBIS
NDC065-110100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN OLIVER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 500 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 
  RAIN OVER WESTERN OLIVER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
  BISMARCK. RADAR ESTIMATES 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN 1 HOUR.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AS WELL AS
FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 4723 10175 4700 10176 4699 10135 4724 10132

$$
FORS

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KBIS 110055
FFSBIS
NDC065-110110-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
800 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 2004

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

AT 800 PM CDT...NO ADDITIONAL RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA...
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...PERSONS SHOULD
REMAIN ALERT IN WESTERN OLIVER COUNTY IF ADDITIONAL RAIN DEVELOPS
LATER THIS EVENING OR OVERNIGHT.  

$$
FORS

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, 1:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Renville	3 hr
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, 5:28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.