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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 26, 2011Stutsman County, North Dakota

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2011-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2011-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -116 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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

$$

HAMILTON
1 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

$$

KINNEY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcHenry, Pierce28 min
Jun 25, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISPierce, Rolette54 min
Jun 25, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISPierce63 min
Jun 25, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWells63 min
Jun 25, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWells56 min
Jun 25, 8:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBISPierce, Wells4 hr
Jun 25, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean, Sheridan58 min
Jun 25, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISFoster, Wells58 min
Jun 25, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton54 min
Jun 25, 9:57 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBISBurleigh, Morton53 min
Jun 25, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Morton27 min
Jun 25, 10:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISFoster26 min
Jun 26, 9:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISLaMoure65 min
Jun 26, 10:22 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBISLaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman6 hr
Jun 26, 5:44 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningBISStutsman43 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 2011Every flash flood warning in 2011

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.