Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2005, 7:07 AM CDT for Kidder County, Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2005, 7:07 AM CDT (12:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2005, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kidder County, ND, Stutsman County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:10 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 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 Jun 20, 4:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 4:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 405 AM CDT MON JUN 20 2005 .SHORT TERM... TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...CURRENT CONVECTION FROM EASTERN MONTANA THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND INTO NORTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EARLY THIS MORNING. SURFACE LOW OVER CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA WITH SURFACE HIGH ACROSS NORTHERN NORTH DAKOTA. BOTH THE NAM AND GFS SHOW A SMALL VORT MAX MOVING EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA THIS MORNING AND SEEMS TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONVECTION. HUMID AIR REMAINS OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE TODAY AS THE DRY SURFACE HIGH SLIDES EASTWARD ACROSS NORTHERN NORTH DAKOTA. THE H500 FLOW IS ZONAL WITH VORT MAXES MOVING THROUGH THE FLOW ACROSS THE STATE AGAIN TONIGHT. EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH TONIGHT WITH SMALLER CHANCES NORTH. LOTS OF CAPE AND EXPECT POSSIBLY SEVERE CONVECTION. ON TUESDAY THE H500 RIDGE BUILDS TO THE WEST AND BROAD SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SETS UP FROM MONTANA THROUGH SOUTH DAKOTA. THIS SOUTHEAST FLOW WILL KEEP HIGH DEWPOINTS OVER THE STATE AND THE BUILDING RIDGE WILL MAINTAIN A MID LEVEL THERMAL CAP TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. ON WEDNESDAY THE RIDGE IS OVER THE DAKOTAS BUT BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN...WITH A SURFACE TROUGH MOVING ACROSS THE STATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. NIGHTTIME CONVECTION IS LIKELY WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE AGAIN. .LONG TERM... CLASSIC LATE JUNE PATTERN FAVORING NOCTURNAL THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE ENTIRE EXTENDED PERIOD. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && JV/RSL
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 5:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 548 AM CDT MON JUN 20 2005 NDZ018>020-031>035-040>046-211046- ADAMS-BILLINGS-BOWMAN-BURLEIGH-DUNN-EMMONS-GOLDEN VALLEY-GRANT- HETTINGER-MERCER-MORTON-OLIVER-SIOUX-SLOPE-STARK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DICKINSON...BOWMAN...BISMARCK...MANDAN... MOTT...MEDORA...LINTON...HETTINGER...BEULAH AND BEACH 548 AM CDT MON JUN 20 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM MDT OR 8 AM CDT. A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. NDZ036-037-047-048-050-051-211046- DICKEY-KIDDER-LA MOURE-LOGAN-MCINTOSH-STUTSMAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JAMESTOWN...ELLENDALE AND ASHLEY 548 AM CDT MON JUN 20 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOT A. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT. A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. NDZ001>005-009>013-017-021>023-025-211046- BOTTINEAU-BURKE-DIVIDE-FOSTER-MCHENRY-MCKENZIE-MCLEAN-MOUNTRAIL- PIERCE-RENVILLE-ROLETTE-SHERIDAN-WARD-WELLS-WILLIAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WILLISTON...MINOT...CROSBY...BOTTINEAU... WATFORD CITY...WASHBURN...STANLEY...RUGBY...HARVEY... CARRINGTON AND BELCOURT 548 AM CDT MON JUN 20 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING...AND A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. VINING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams | 41 min |
| Jun 20, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Sioux | 59 min |
| Jun 20, 4:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 5:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Sioux | 61 min |
| Jun 20, 6:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Logan, McIntosh | 59 min |
| Jun 20, 6:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stark | 31 min |
| Jun 20, 6:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh | 58 min |
| Jun 20, 7:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey, LaMoure | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.