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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 21, 2007McLean County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2007, 7:53 PM CDT for McLean County, North Dakota. It was in force for 67 min. 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: May 21, 2007, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2007, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McLean County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 21, 8:30 PM CDT	HAIL 1	4 Nnw Washburn, ND

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 37 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 21, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 74 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: 1843 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KBIS 220054
SVRBIS
NDC055-220200-
/O.NEW.KBIS.SV.W.0060.070522T0053Z-070522T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
753 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MCLEAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 753 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
  LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RIVERDALE
  TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF FALKIRK...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 49
  MILES NORTHWEST OF BISMARCK TO 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF BISMARCK...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  UNDERWOOD AROUND 800 PM CDT...
  FALKIRK AROUND 805 PM CDT...
  TURTLE LAKE AROUND 820 PM CDT...
  MERCER AND WASHBURN AROUND 830 PM CDT...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND SOMETIMES DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO A PLACE
OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM.


LAT...LON 4762 10140 4731 10134 4726 10120 4731 10116
      4729 10100 4716 10095 4716 10075 4769 10069

$$

CS/HW

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KBIS 220123
SVSBIS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
823 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2007

NDC055-220200-
/O.CON.KBIS.SV.W.0060.000000T0000Z-070522T0200Z/
MCLEAN ND-
823 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN MCLEAN COUNTY...

AT 823 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER
SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTH OF COLEHARBOR
TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FALKIRK...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 51
MILES NORTHWEST OF BISMARCK TO 27 MILES NORTH OF BISMARCK...MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  WASHBURN AROUND 830 PM CDT...
  TURTLE LAKE AROUND 845 PM CDT...
  MERCER AROUND 855 PM CDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4762 10140 4731 10134 4726 10120 4731 10116
      4729 10100 4716 10095 4716 10075 4769 10069

$$

CS/HW

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 May 21, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
330 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2007

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...
MAIN CONCERNS TONIGHT INVOLVE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. BIS
SPECIAL SOUNDING AT 17Z INDICATED CAPPING STILL PRESENT BUT WITH
CAPE OF CLOSE TO 2500 AT THE CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURE OF 84. WITH SFC
COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO PUSH TO CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA BY MID EVENING
THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER THE MAIN CONCERN THIS EVENING.
CLOUDS AND COOL BOUNDARY LAYER MIXED OUT AS WARM FRONT PROGRESSED
NORTH THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO INITIATE ALONG COLD
FRONT AND PROGRESS EAST TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS APPEAR
TO BE THE MAIN THREAT. SOME TRAINING OF THUNDERSTORMS A POSSIBILITY
FOR SIGNIFICANT PRECIP TONIGHT...BUT WITH EASTWARD TRANSLATION OF
FRONTAL SYSTEM DONT ANTICIPATE FLASH FLOOD THREAT AT THIS TIME. AS
UPPER LOW SWINGS THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY THINK THREAT A
WIDESPREAD RAINS WILL BLANKET WESTERN AND NORTHERN SECTIONS OF
CWA... GENERALLY THE DRIEST AREAS OF THE REGION. COOL AND SHOWERY
WEATHER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST PERIOD WITH GENERALLY LOW
HEIGHTS ALOFT AND PROGRESSIVE FLOW.

.LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...
MODELS ARE IN A BIT OF DISARRAY AS THEY ATTEMPT TO HANDLE THE UPPER
WAVE DROPPING FROM SW CANADA INTO THE NW U.S. LATE THIS WEEK. THE
12Z GFS ACTUALLY SLOWS THE SYSTEM DOWN FROM PREVIOUS RUNS AND THEN
BRINGS IT ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS AS A WEAKENING WAVE IN
INCREASINGLY ZONAL FLOW SUN INTO MON. HOWEVER...WE TRENDED OUR FCST
TO A BLEND OF THE 00Z AND 06Z GFS AND 00Z ECMWF AS THEY WERE IN GOOD
AGREEMENT. EARLY ON THIS RESULTED IN COOLER AND POTENTIALLY WETTER
CONDITIONS THAN THE 12Z GFS WOULD SUGGEST...WITH 850MB TEMPS A FEW
DEG WARMER ON THE NEW MODEL. EITHER WAY THOUGH IT WILL BE A COOL
WEEKEND WITH 850MB TEMPS RANGING FROM 0 TO JUST BLO 10 C NO MATTER
WHICH FLAVOR YOU CHOOSE...BUT WITH TIMING OF THE COLDEST TEMPS VERY
MUCH DEPENDENT ON THE SPEED OF THE UPPER WAVE. IN FACT...IF OR WHEN
WE DO SEE PRECIP IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO GET INTO THE 50S F. THE
ENSEMBLE GFS GUIDANCE SHOWS WELL THE MEDIOCRE CONFIDENCE WITH A
LARGE SPREAD IN THERMAL FIELDS DURING THE LONG TERM. OUR FCST IS
TRENDED TOWARD AND EVEN A BIT BELOW THE ENSEMBLE MEAN...BUT AGAIN
WITH ONLY MODERATE CONFIDENCE UNTIL BETTER CONTINUITY IS ACHIEVED IN
MODEL SOLUTIONS.

&&

.AVIATION...
TSRA WILL ERUPT ALONG A COLD FRONT IN WESTERN ND THIS AFTERNOON
AND SPREAD EAST THRU THE EVENING. SOME STORMS ARE APT TO BE SEVERE
WITH DAMAGING SFC WINDS AND LARGE HAIL SFC AND ALOFT. ACTIVITY
SHOULD EXPAND IN COVERAGE AFT 00Z WITH A LARGE COMPLEX OF SHOWERS
AND STORMS LIKELY TAKING SHAPE OVERNIGHT IN CENTRAL ND. MVFR CIGS
AND VIS WILL LIKELY BE THE NORM WITH THIS ACTIVITY...BUT IT IS
CERTAINLY POSSIBLE THAT IFR CONDITIONS WILL TAKE SHAPE AS THE
ACTIVITY PERSISTS INTO TUESDAY MORNING ALONG THE SLOW-MOVING FRONT.

&&

.BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

WAA/CJS

Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 4:52 AM CDT, 15 hours 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
452 AM CDT MON MAY 21 2007

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-221000-
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-
452 AM CDT MON MAY 21 2007 /352 AM MDT MON MAY 21 2007/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA...SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME
STORMS WILL LIKELY REACH SEVERE LIMITS...WITH LARGE HAIL AND
STRONG WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN ON TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

JV

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 21, 6:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
646 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0643 PM     HAIL             HEBRON                  46.90N 102.04W
05/21/2007  E0.75 INCH       MORTON             ND   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            HAIL LASTED ABOUT 5 MINUTES.

&&

KJB

Local storm report, May 21, 6:56 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
656 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0612 PM     HAIL             5 E MINOT               48.23N 101.19W
05/21/2007  E0.88 INCH       WARD               ND   PUBLIC

            HAIL ON AND OFF FOR ABOUT 30 MINUTES.

&&

KJB

Local storm report, May 21, 7:08 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
708 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0645 PM     HAIL             MCCLUSKY                47.48N 100.44W
05/21/2007  E1.75 INCH       SHERIDAN           ND   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

KJB

Local storm report, May 21, 7:19 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
719 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0715 PM     TORNADO          4 E GLEN ULLIN          46.81N 101.75W
05/21/2007                   MORTON             ND   STORM CHASER

            CURRENTLY ON THE GROUND.

&&

KJB

Local storm report, May 21, 7:23 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
723 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0722 PM     TORNADO          5 E GLEN ULLIN          46.81N 101.73W
05/21/2007                   MORTON             ND   STORM CHASER

            SECOND TORNODO REPLACES INITAL ONE.

&&

KJB

Local storm report, May 21, 7:41 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
741 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0738 PM     HAIL             LANSFORD                48.63N 101.38W
05/21/2007  E1.00 INCH       BOTTINEAU          ND   CO-OP OBSERVER

            STILL HAILING AT TIME OF REPORT.

&&

KJB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sheridan	60 min
May 21, 7:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton	25 min
May 21, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	47 min
May 21, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	61 min
May 21, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville	28 min
May 21, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Oliver	38 min
May 21, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton	31 min
May 21, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	55 min
May 21, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce, Rolette	58 min
May 21, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	25 min
May 21, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton, Oliver	60 min
May 21, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce, Rolette	67 min
May 21, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	25 min
May 21, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	38 min
May 21, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Morton, Oliver, Sheridan	62 min
May 21, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	50 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.