Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 351, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2005, 8:21 PM CDT for Burke County, North Dakota. It was in force for 54 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
- Aug 30, 2005, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2005, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Burke County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 1048 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
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 Aug 30, 3:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 320 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2005 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT SHORTWAVE AND ASSOCIATED SFC TROUGH AND FRONT MOVING SLOWER THAN EARLIER ANTICIPATED. EXPECT FRONTAL PASSAGE AROUND 5 TO 7 PM ACROSS WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. MAIN CONCERN WILL BE GUSTY WINDS AS MONTANA HAS BEEN REPORTING 30 TO 40 KT WIND GUSTS BEHIND THE FRONT. WILL ISSUE A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE STATE THIS EVENING. MODELS CONTINUE TO BUILD UP CAPE ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT SO A SHORT PERIOD OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE IS STILL THE CURRENT THINKING. AFTER THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH PRECIP SHOULD MOVE OUT OF THE REGION AFTER SUNRISE SO WILL KEEP WEDNESDAY DRY. REMAINDER OF THE WEEK WILL BE SPENT UNDER A BUILDING 500 MB RIDGE SO EXPECT QUIET WEATHER WITH A SLOW WARMING TREND. .LONG TERM...SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT ON SATURDAY THE UPPER LEVEL H500 RIDGE AXIS IS OVER THE CENTRAL CONUS...THEN SHIFTS EASTWARD ON SUNDAY AS A H500 TROUGH MOVES EASTWARD OVER THE ROCKIES. BY MONDAY MORNING THE H500 TROUGH IS EMERGING EAST OF THE ROCKIES BRINGING SHORTWAVE ENERGY TO THE NORTHERN PLAINS...WITH AN ASSOCIATED SURFACE FRONT. HAVE INTRODUCED CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AND SHOWERS MONDAY NIGHT TO THE REGION. HAVE KEPT TUESDAY DRY FOR NOW AS MOST OF THE SHORTWAVE ENERGY IS EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA...BUT MAY SEE SOME LIGHT SHOWERS TUESDAY WITH THE MAIN H500 COLD POOL IN SOUTH CENTRAL CANADA. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND ADVISORY...WESTERN THIRD...TONIGHT. && WAA/JV
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 30, 4:03 AM CDT, 16 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 403 AM CDT TUE AUG 30 2005 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-310915- DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD- MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS- FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER- STUTSMAN-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN- LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY- 403 AM CDT TUE AUG 30 2005 /303 AM MDT TUE AUG 30 2005/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA THIS MORNING THEN SLOWLY EAST ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. GOOD DAYTIME HEATING AND DEWPOINTS IN THE 50S WILL LEAD TO MODERATE INSTABILITY THIS AFTERNOON WITH CAPES BETWEEN 1000 AND 2000 J/KG. THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS...SOME COULD BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 54 min |
| Aug 31, 2:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Rolette | 24 min |
| Aug 31, 4:33 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | BIS | Bottineau, Burke, McHenry, Mountrail, Pierce, Renville and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Aug 31, 10:39 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | BIS | Foster, Kidder, Sheridan, Stutsman, Wells | 10 hr |
| Aug 31, 10:39 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Divide and 14 more | 11 hr |
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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.