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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 26, 2005Bottineau County, Renville County, Ward County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2005, 5:58 PM CDT for Bottineau County, Renville County, Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 4 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2005, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bottineau County, ND, Renville County, ND, Ward County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 26, 9:05 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Lansford, ND	STREET FLOODING.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -386 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.3

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KBIS 262258
FFWBIS
NDC009-075-101-270300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
558 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN BOTTINEAU COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  RENVILLE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  FAR NORTHERN WARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 548 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO GRANO...
  ECKMAN...NORMA...WESTHOPE...TOLLEY...SHERWOOD...MOHALL...MAXBASS...
  LORAINE...LANSFORD...KENMARE AND ANTLER.

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.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
BISMARCK.

LAT...LON 4898 10095 4897 10175 4870 10216 4827 10190
      4827 10110 4873 10100

$$

RSL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	64 min
Jun 25, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	60 min
Jun 25, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, McKenzie, Williams	65 min
Jun 25, 10:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	26 min
Jun 25, 11:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	31 min
Jun 25, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Mountrail	61 min
Jun 26, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	66 min
Jun 26, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Slope	67 min
Jun 26, 12:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	29 min
Jun 26, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	64 min
Jun 26, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	56 min
Jun 26, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Ward	56 min
Jun 26, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Rolette	70 min
Jun 26, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce	61 min
Jun 26, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Golden Valley, McKenzie	52 min
Jun 26, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mountrail, Ward	54 min
Jun 26, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	64 min
Jun 26, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	61 min
Jun 26, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	59 min
Jun 26, 5:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Mountrail	4 hr
Jun 26, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	30 min
Jun 26, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville	61 min
Jun 26, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton, Sioux	30 min
Jun 26, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bowman	38 min
Jun 26, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	28 min
Jun 26, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton, Sioux	45 min
Jun 26, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Oliver	22 min
Jun 26, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Hettinger	59 min
Jun 26, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	57 min
Jun 26, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	38 min
Jun 26, 6:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Ward	4 hr
Jun 26, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	33 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.