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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 17, 2004Stark County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2004, 7:15 PM MDT for Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 60 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 17, 2004, 7:15 PM MDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2004, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 2004-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 858 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 2004-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 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
858 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
5.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KBIS 180115
SVRBIS
NDC089-180215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
714 PM MDT SAT JUL 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN STARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 815 PM MDT

* AT 714 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RICHARDTON...OR ABOUT 24 MILES EAST OF
  DICKINSON...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  INTERSTATE 94 IN EASTERN STARK COUNTY AT 720 PM MDT
  
HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE  HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM 4 MILES 
EAST OF RICHARDTON AT 705 PM MDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE 
STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 4697 10214 4693 10242 4666 10241 4665 10211

$$
CJS/WAA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStark60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2004Every severe thunderstorm 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.