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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 14, 2011Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2011, 1:32 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 14, 2011, 1:32 PM CDT (18:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2011, 4:09 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), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.

475 
WGUS53 KBIS 141832
FFWBIS
NDC093-150030-
/O.NEW.KBIS.FF.W.0007.110614T1832Z-110615T0030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 130 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE      
  WARNED AREA. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR ARE      
  OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. 

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...     
  JAMESTOWN. THOSE IN JAMESTOWN SHOULD EXPECT STREETS TO BECOME      
  FLOODED...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS AND LOCATIONS OF POOR      
  DRAINAGE.

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.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 4663 9903 4732 9882 4733 9846 4732 9845
      4699 9846 4698 9843 4664 9843

$$

HEINERT/AYD

1 follow-up statement

907 
WGUS73 KBIS 142109
FFSBIS

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

NDC093-142124-
/O.CAN.KBIS.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-110615T0030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
STUTSMAN ND-
409 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN STUTSMAN 
COUNTY 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 4663 9903 4732 9882 4733 9846 4732 9845
      4699 9846 4698 9843 4664 9843

$$

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, 10:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, Logan	6 hr
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, 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

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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.