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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 14, 20114 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2011, 10:21 AM CDT for 4 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr. 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: Jun 14, 2011, 10:21 AM CDT (15:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2011, 4:07 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Burleigh County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Logan County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 14, 10:41 AM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 1.83	4 Nw Hazelton, ND	1.83 INCHES IN 20 MINUTES

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

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 51 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: 1333 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

560 
WGUS53 KBIS 141521
FFWBIS
NDC015-029-043-047-142130-
/O.NEW.KBIS.FF.W.0005.110614T1521Z-110614T2130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1021 AM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EMMONS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...
  SOUTHEASTERN BURLEIGH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...
  SOUTHWESTERN KIDDER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...
  WESTERN LOGAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT TUESDAY

* AT 1018 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE      
  WARNED AREA. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR ARE       
  OCCURRING WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...LEADING TO STREET FLOODING    
  AND POSSIBLE RAPID RISES ON FASTER RESPONDING CREEKS AND STREAMS   
  ACROSS THE AREA. 

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
  OF EMMONS...SOUTHEASTERN BURLEIGH...SOUTHWESTERN KIDDER AND WESTERN
  LOGAN COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF BRADDOCK...DAWSON...
  HAGUE...HAZELTON...HULL...KINTYRE...LAKE ISABEL...LINTON...
  MOFFIT...STEELE...STRASBURG...TEMVIK AND WESTFIELD.


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

&&

LAT...LON 4595 10050 4599 10052 4651 10056 4653 10054
      4655 10056 4667 10057 4686 10003 4689 9967
      4594 10001

$$

AYD

2 follow-up statements

869 
WGUS73 KBIS 141802
FFSBIS

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
102 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011

NDC015-029-043-047-142130-
/O.CON.KBIS.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-110614T2130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BURLEIGH ND-EMMONS ND-KIDDER ND-LOGAN ND-
102 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN LOGAN...
SOUTHWESTERN KIDDER...EMMONS AND SOUTHEASTERN BURLEIGH COUNTIES UNTIL
430 PM CDT...

AT 1259 PM CDT...SURFACE REPORTS AND DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 
INDICATE THAT ONE AND A HALF TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
FALLEN FROM MOFFIT...THROUGH BRADDOCK...HAZELTON...STRASBURG AND 
WESTFIELD. RUNOFF FROM THIS RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO FLOODING OF COUNTY 
AND TOWNSHIP ROADS IN LOW LYING AREAS...AND LOCATIONS OF POOR 
DRAINAGE. RAPID RISES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE ON FASTER RESPONDING 
CREEKS...STREAMS AND COULEES...WHICH MAY RESULT IN MINOR FLOODING. 
AN ADDITIONAL ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ACROSS 
THE WARNED AREA THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. 

IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EMMONS...SOUTHEASTERN
BURLEIGH...SOUTHWESTERN KIDDER AND WESTERN LOGAN COUNTIES...INCLUDING
THE TOWNS OF BRADDOCK...DAWSON...HAGUE...HAZELTON...HULL...KINTYRE...
LAKE ISABEL...LINTON...MOFFIT...STEELE...STRASBURG...TEMVIK AND
WESTFIELD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES... AS WELL AS
FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

&&

LAT...LON 4595 10050 4599 10052 4651 10056 4653 10054
      4655 10056 4667 10057 4686 10003 4689 9967
      4594 10001

$$

AYD

420 
WGUS73 KBIS 142107
FFSBIS

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
407 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011

NDC015-029-043-047-142120-
/O.CAN.KBIS.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-110614T2130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BURLEIGH ND-EMMONS ND-KIDDER ND-LOGAN ND-
407 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN 
LOGAN...SOUTHWESTERN KIDDER...EMMONS AND SOUTHEASTERN BURLEIGH 
COUNTIES HAS BEEN REPLACED BY AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING...

WHILE THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT IS OVER...RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL 
WILL LIKELY LEAD TO OVERLAND FLOODING AND ELEVATED WATER LEVELS ON 
AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS INTO WEDNESDAY. THEREFORE...AN AREAL FLOOD 
WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT WEDNESDAY.

LAT...LON 4595 10050 4599 10052 4651 10056 4653 10054
      4655 10056 4667 10057 4686 10003 4689 9967
      4594 10001

$$

AYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 6:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant	39 min
Jun 14, 7:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	61 min
Jun 14, 11:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman	4 hr
Jun 14, 11:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	BIS	Emmons, Foster, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman	7 hr
Jun 14, 1:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Stutsman	80 min
Jun 14, 1:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Stutsman	3 hr
Jun 14, 2:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	LaMoure	3 hr
Jun 14, 4:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh and 1 more	23 hr
Jun 14, 4:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Dickey	22 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 2011 Every 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.