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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2010, 3:00 PM MDT for Adams County, Grant County, Sioux County, North Dakota. It was in force for 46 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 26, 2010, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2010, 3:46 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Adams County, ND, Grant County, ND, Sioux County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 2485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 26, 2:32 PM MDT, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:32 PM MDT, 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 332 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT... SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS WEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THIS EVENING. MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. THE FOCUS WILL BE A TROUGH MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...HOWEVER MULTIPLE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES EXIST FROM FRIDAY EVENING CONVECTION. THUS MULTIPLE LINES OF CONVECTION ARE LIKELY BUT THE WESTERN TROUGH WILL EVENTUALLY PUSH ALL THE SEVERE POTENTIAL EAST THIS EVENING. BY MIDNIGHT MOST OF THE SEVERE POTENTIAL WILL BE EAST OF THE REGION. COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL PUSH INTO THE STATE SUNDAY BUT THE UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL BRUSH THE NORTH CENTRAL SO HAVE ADDED A RESIDUAL THUNDERSTORM CHANCE TO THE NORTH CENTRAL SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. EVENTUALLY THE H5 RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE REGION BY TUESDAY AND BRINGS WARM AND DRY WEATHER TO THE REGION. .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... EARLY IN THE LONG TERM THE H5 RIDGE WILL BRING WARM AND DRY WEATHER. GFS AND ECMWF BUILD A SIGNIFICANT LONG WAVE TROUGH INTO THE NORTHWEST US BY THURSDAY INTO THE WEEKEND. THIS WILL SET UP SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WITH SHORTWAVE ENERGY FLOWING INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. THE LATER HALF OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD LOOKS LIKE AN ACTIVE ONE CONVECTIVELY. && .AVIATION...A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE EXTENDING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AT 3 PM CDT WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY EVENING. THE MAIN HAZARD TO AVIATION WILL BE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH 03Z/10 PM CDT. ALTHOUGH GENERALLY VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AT ALL TAF SITES... THE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL IN THE VICINITY AND AT THE TAFS SITE APPEAR LIKELY ESPECIALLY AT KBIS/KJMS AND KMOT. VFR AFTER 06Z. && .HYDROLOGY...HIGH K INDEX VALUES...SIGNIFICANT PRECIP WATER AND THE TRAINING POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL HIGHLIGHT THE HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL ACROSS WEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA TONIGHT. OF CONCERN IS THE SOURIS RIVER VALLEY REGION WHERE PAST FEW THUNDERSTORMS EVENTS HAVE ADDED QUITE A BIT OF RAINFALL TO THE REGION. BUT THE HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL EXISTS OVER ALL OF WEST AND CENTRAL ND. WILL CONTINUE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE WEST AND CENTRAL THROUGH 06Z/1 AM CDT. && .BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 1 AM CDT /MIDNIGHT MDT/ SUNDAY FOR NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051. && ABELING
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 3:37 AM MDT, 11 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 437 AM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-270945- 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- 437 AM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010 /337 AM MDT SAT JUN 26 2010/ 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 AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS TODAY AND TONIGHT BRINGING THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...AND HEAVY RAIN TO THE REGION. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA FOR THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. IN ADDITION...HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER...GOOD SHEAR...AND HIGH CAPE WILL LEAD TO THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING THURSDAY NIGHT AS YET ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVES INTO THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 25, 6:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mountrail | 57 min |
| Jun 25, 6:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Renville | 53 min |
| Jun 25, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Renville, Ward | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 7:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more | 25 hr |
| Jun 25, 7:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, McIntosh | 55 min |
| Jun 25, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Renville, Ward | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 7:57 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | Burke, Renville, Ward | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 8:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, McIntosh | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 4:42 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Mercer | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 10:02 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Bottineau | 71 min |
| Jun 26, 10:17 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 2:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley | 57 min |
| Jun 26, 3:30 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Burleigh, Morton | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Dunn | 67 min |
| Jun 26, 4:59 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Grant | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010
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.