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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 29, 2005Ward County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2005, 2:45 AM CDT for 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 29, 2005, 2:45 AM CDT (07:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2005, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ward County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 29, 4:40 AM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Minot, ND

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 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 777 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KBIS 290748
FFWBIS
NDC101-291145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
245 AM CDT WED JUN 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MINOT

* UNTIL 645 AM CDT

* AT 243 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL        
  WARD COUNTY.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WOLSETH...
  FOXHOLM...HARTLAND...SURREY...MINOT AFB...KENMARE...DONNYBROOK...
  DES LACS...CARPIO...BURLINGTON AND BERTHOLD.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS 
SAFELY. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY 
AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 4785 10186 4785 10097 4802 10097 4803 10101
      4837 10102 4836 10106 4845 10107 4846 10185
      4872 10186 4873 10202 4880 10203 4880 10214
      4872 10214 4873 10224 4855 10220 4855 10198
      4838 10197 4838 10190 4804 10192 4803 10187

$$
TWH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley, Slope	66 min
Jun 28, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer	57 min
Jun 28, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	59 min
Jun 28, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Oliver	30 min
Jun 28, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Slope, Stark	53 min
Jun 29, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	62 min
Jun 29, 12:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	McKenzie	4 hr
Jun 29, 12:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Dunn	4 hr
Jun 29, 12:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn	26 min
Jun 29, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	36 min
Jun 29, 5:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Wells	64 min
Jun 29, 11:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Sheridan	6 hr
Jun 29, 1:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	McHenry, Pierce	6 hr
Jun 29, 2:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Kidder, Wells	6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 2005 Every flash flood warning in 2005

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.