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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 7, 2004Hettinger County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2004, 3:11 PM MDT for Hettinger County, North Dakota. It was in force for 64 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: Aug 7, 2004, 3:11 PM MDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2004, 4:15 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hettinger County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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
Aug 7, 1:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -483 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -24 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 
WUUS53 KBIS 072111
SVRBIS
NDC041-072215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
311 PM MDT SAT AUG 7 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HETTINGER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 415 PM MDT

* AT 311 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NEW ENGLAND...OR ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTH OF
  DICKINSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  REGENT AROUND 320 PM MDT

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 4662 10293 4630 10293 4631 10242 4663 10210

$$
WA

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 Aug 7, 2:00 AM MDT, 13 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:00 AM MDT, 13 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
300 AM CDT SAT AUG 7 2004

.SHORT TERM...
ACTIVE THUNDERSTORM DAY ON TAP AS STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHES EAST
ACROSS THE STATE...WITH A PRECEDING UNSTABLE AIRMASS WITH CAPES OF
1500-3500 J/KG. A BLEND OF ETA/NGM/GFS PUTS THE FRONT ABOUT 60 MILES
WEST OF A MINOT/BISMARCK LINE AT MAX HEATING (22Z). I EXPECT
STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP AT THAT TIME AND MOVE EAST
ACROSS OUR FORECAST AREA DURING THE EVENING AND NIGHTTIME HOURS.

ON SUNDAY WRAP AROUND MOISTURE AND COLD MID LEVEL TEMPS WILL BE
ENOUGH TO KICK OFF SOME INSTABILITY SHOWERS OR THUNDERSHOWERS...WITH
THE BEST CHANCE IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE STATE.

ON MONDAY...COLD AIR ALOFT AND LINGERING MOISTURE FROM THE...SLOW TO
DEPART...MID LEVEL LOW...WILL MAKE FOR A PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY DAY
AS DIURNAL CU FIELDS DEVELOP AND SPREAD OUT OVER MOST OF OUR REGION
BY AFTERNOON.

.LONG TERM...
UPPER LEVEL LOW BEGINS TO MOVE EASTWARD ON TUESDAY...BUT COULD BE A
FEW LINGERING SHOWERS EASTERN PORTIONS OF CWA. OTHERWISE...IT LOOKS
DRY WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD
OVER THE ROCKIES.  NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL KEEP COOL HIGH
PRESSURE OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.  SO...EXPECT TEMPS
TO BE MAINLY BELOW NORMAL...BUT RETURNING TO NEAR NORMAL BY FRIDAY.

&&

.BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

LEBLANG/FORS

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 2:41 AM MDT, 12 hours 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
341 AM CDT SAT AUG 7 2004

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-080840-
ADAMS ND-BILLINGS ND-BOTTINEAU ND-BOWMAN ND-BURKE ND-BURLEIGH ND-
DICKEY ND-DIVIDE ND-DUNN ND-EMMONS ND-FOSTER ND-GOLDEN VALLEY ND-
GRANT ND-HETTINGER ND-KIDDER ND-LA MOURE ND-LOGAN ND-MCHENRY ND-
MCINTOSH ND-MCKENZIE ND-MCLEAN ND-MERCER ND-MORTON ND-MOUNTRAIL ND-
OLIVER ND-PIERCE ND-RENVILLE ND-ROLETTE ND-SHERIDAN ND-SIOUX ND-
SLOPE ND-STARK ND-STUTSMAN ND-WARD ND-WELLS ND-WILLIAMS ND-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BISMARCK...BOTTINEAU...BOWMAN...CROSBY...
DICKINSON...JAMESTOWN...MINOT AND WILLISTON
341 AM CDT SAT AUG 7 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 7, 2:31 PM MDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
331 PM CDT SAT AUG 07 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0322 PM     HAIL             6 NNE BOWMAN            46.26N 103.35W
08/07/2004  0.88 INCH        BOWMAN             ND   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0322 PM     HAIL             SSW AMIDON              46.48N 103.32W
08/07/2004  0.88 INCH        SLOPE              ND   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

SW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 9:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	50 min
Aug 7, 1:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	60 min
Aug 7, 2:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	57 min
Aug 7, 2:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Slope	55 min
Aug 7, 3:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	63 min
Aug 7, 3:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn	52 min
Aug 7, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	59 min
Aug 7, 4:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	61 min
Aug 7, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	57 min
Aug 7, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	35 min
Aug 7, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2004 Every 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.