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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 7, 2005Grant County, Sioux County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2005, 7:41 PM MDT for Grant County, Sioux County, North Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2005, 7:41 PM MDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2005, 9:45 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Grant County, ND, Sioux County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 1199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KBIS 080144
FFWBIS
NDC037-085-080345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
741 PM MDT TUE JUN 7 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS REISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  WESTERN SIOUX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 945 PM MDT(1045 PM CDT)

* AT 737 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SHIELDS...
  RALEIGH...LARK...HEIL...NEW LEIPZIG...LEITH...ELGIN AND CARSON.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.00 TO 1.50 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN 
THE WARNED AREA.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

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.

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.

LAT...LON 4595 10196 4595 10108 4633 10108 4637 10134
      4660 10135 4667 10203

$$

JENSEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	50 min
Jun 7, 7:04 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton, Sioux	3 hr
Jun 7, 7:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	38 min
Jun 7, 7:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	56 min
Jun 7, 7:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	44 min
Jun 7, 7:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Emmons	28 min
Jun 7, 7:53 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Emmons	37 min
Jun 7, 8:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan, McIntosh	46 min
Jun 7, 8:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	42 min
Jun 7, 9:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan	43 min
Jun 7, 9:20 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Dickey, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman	115 min
Jun 7, 9:35 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dickey	25 min
Jun 7, 9:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dickey	46 min
Jun 7, 10:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	22 min
Jun 7, 10:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	37 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.