Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Bismarck, ND

March 26, 2004Hettinger County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2004, 10:13 PM MST for Hettinger County, North Dakota. It was in force for 47 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
Mar 26, 2004, 10:13 PM MST (05:13 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2004, 11:00 PM MST
In force
47 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 05:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 26, 6:35 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2004-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 466 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
466 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
715 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 270513
SVRBIS
NDC041-270600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1013 PM MST FRI MAR 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM MST

* AT 1013 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NEW ENGLAND...OR ABOUT 24 MILES SOUTH OF
  DICKINSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MOTT AT 1030 PM MST

LAT...LON 4659 10288 4631 10286 4630 10219 4663 10246

$$
RSL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 9:15 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBowman45 min
Mar 26, 10:41 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStark34 min
Mar 26, 10:49 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISAdams56 min
Mar 27, 4:36 AM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISLogan, McIntosh29 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.