Alert archive / North Dakota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2011
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2011, 2:55 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2011, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2011, 6:01 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Stutsman County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
960
WGUS53 KBIS 261955
FFWBIS
NDC093-270200-
/O.NEW.KBIS.FF.W.0021.110626T1955Z-110627T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
255 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 249 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED STREET
FLOODING IN THE CITY OF JAMESTOWN...DUE TO SLOW MOVING
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES
1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN AND AROUND JAMESTOWN.
APPROACHING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE ANOTHER INCH
TO TWO INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAIN.
* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
JAMESTOWN.
AS OF 230 PM CDT A LITTLE OVER AN INCH AND THREE QUARTERS OF RAIN
HAS FALLEN AT THE JAMESTOWN AIRPORT. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXPECT
WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING. SLOW DOWN...AS WAKES PRODUCED BY
VEHICLES COULD CAUSE WATER TO SPILL INTO HOMES AND BUSINESSES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES.
ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF
CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 4663 9844 4663 9910 4718 9853 4715 9845
4699 9846 4698 9842 4668 9842
$$
HAMILTON1 follow-up statement
545
WGUS73 KBIS 262301
FFSBIS
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
601 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011
NDC093-262312-
/O.CAN.KBIS.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-110627T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
STUTSMAN ND-
601 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 2011
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
STUTSMAN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNING AREA. THERE MAY BE A FEW
SHOWERS THIS EVENING...BUT NO ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED.
HOWEVER...FLOODING ALONG SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND TOWNSHIP
ROADS WILL PERSIST OVERNIGHT...ESPECIALLY NEAR AND EAST OF
JAMESTOWN. A FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EAST CENTRAL STUTSMAN
COUNTY THROUGH 530 PM CDT MONDAY. THE JAMES RIVER AT JAMESTOWN HAS
RISEN ABOVE FLOOD STAGE TODAY...AND RISING WATER LEVELS COULD IMPACT
SOME HOMES NEAR THE RIVER. THE SEVEN MILE COULEE AREA EAST OF
JAMESTOWN WAS ALSO IMPACTED BY HEAVY RAIN EARLIER TODAY.
LAT...LON 4663 9844 4663 9910 4718 9853 4715 9845
4699 9846 4698 9842 4668 9842
$$
KINNEYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Pierce | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce, Rolette | 54 min |
| Jun 25, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Wells | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Wells | 56 min |
| Jun 25, 8:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | Pierce, Wells | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Sheridan | 58 min |
| Jun 25, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster, Wells | 58 min |
| Jun 25, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 54 min |
| Jun 25, 9:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Burleigh, Morton | 53 min |
| Jun 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton | 27 min |
| Jun 25, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 9:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | LaMoure | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 10:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.