Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2005, 5:36 PM MDT for Dunn County, North Dakota. It was in force for 39 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
- Jul 1, 2005, 5:36 PM MDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2005, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dunn County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 313 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
- 225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 Jul 1, 2:20 PM MDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 2:20 PM MDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 320 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2005 .SHORT TERM... 00Z 4KM NSP WRF MODEL PROJECTS CONVECTION ENTERING OUR FAR WEST AFTER 22Z...REACHING BIS/MOT BY 03Z AND THEN DYING OFF WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. ON THE OTHER HAND THE 12Z ETA TAKES THE CURRENT CONVECTION ALONG THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER AND TURNS IS SOUTHWARD INTO OUR NORTHEASTERN ZONES. THE MONTANA ACTIVITY IS HELD UP BY MID LEVEL RIDGING SOUTH OF THE CANADIAN BORDER ONLY BECOMES A FACTOR ON SATURDAY. HOWEVER ON SATURDAY THE ETA PUSHES THE ASSOCIATED SURFACE TROUGH EAST OF BISMARCK BEFORE THE AFTERNOON CONVECTION FIRES UP. THIS MAY LESSEN CHANCES FOR CONVECTION IN MY WESTERN ZONES SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .LONG TERM...KEPT IN LOW POPS 12Z TUES THROUGH 12Z WED AS A WEAK SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. GFS80 AND OTHER LONG RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW A BROAD UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDING OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. NORTHERN PLAINS REMAINS UNDER NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EXTENDED. EXPECT THIS PERIOD TO BE DRY AND TEMPERATURES TO SLOWLY INCREASE EACH DAY...WITH THE WARMEST BEING FRIDAY AND INTO THE EARLY PART OF THE WEEKEND AS THE RIDGE CREST MOVES OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && RSL/NH
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 3:47 AM MDT, 13 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 447 AM CDT FRI JUL 1 2005 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-020946- ADAMS-BILLINGS-BOTTINEAU-BOWMAN-BURKE-BURLEIGH-DICKEY-DIVIDE-DUNN- EMMONS-FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-GRANT-HETTINGER-KIDDER-LA MOURE-LOGAN- MCHENRY-MCINTOSH-MCKENZIE-MCLEAN-MERCER-MORTON-MOUNTRAIL-OLIVER- PIERCE-RENVILLE-ROLETTE-SHERIDAN-SIOUX-SLOPE-STARK-STUTSMAN-WARD- WELLS-WILLIAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WILLISTON...MINOT...JAMESTOWN... DICKINSON...CROSBY...BOWMAN...BOTTINEAU...BISMARCK...MANDAN... WATFORD CITY...WASHBURN...STANLEY...RUGBY...MOTT...MEDORA...LINTON... HETTINGER...HARVEY...ELLENDALE...CARRINGTON...BEULAH...BELCOURT... BEACH AND ASHLEY 447 AM CDT FRI JUL 1 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE LATE SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY LATE SATURDAY. JP MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 62 min |
| Jul 1, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 56 min |
| Jul 1, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 61 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.