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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 22, 20115 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2011, 8:13 PM MDT for 5 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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: Jul 22, 2011, 8:13 PM MDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2011, 9:15 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Dunn County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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
Jul 22, 8:14 PM MDT	HAIL 0.75	3 S Marshall, ND	ND ATMOSHPERIC RESOURCE BOARD OBSERVER REPORT.
Jul 22, 9:10 PM MDT	TORNADO	12 Ne Glen Ullin, ND	TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED THAT A TORNADO APPEARED TO BE ON THE GROUND...SEEN WITH LIGHTNING...

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

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 22, 4:35 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 1986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1048 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 7.2

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The text

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

912 
WUUS53 KBIS 230213
SVRBIS
NDC025-057-059-065-089-230315-
/O.NEW.KBIS.SV.W.0162.110723T0213Z-110723T0315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
913 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN DUNN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...
  SOUTHERN MERCER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...
  NORTHWESTERN MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...
  OLIVER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...
  EASTERN STARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT/915 PM MDT/

* AT 910 PM CDT/810 PM MDT/...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
  ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES EAST OF MARSHALL TO 8 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF LEFOR...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HEBRON AROUND 930 PM CDT.
  GLEN ULLIN AROUND 950 PM CDT.
  HANNOVER AROUND 955 PM CDT.
  CENTER AROUND 1005 PM CDT.
  NEW SALEM AND ALMONT AROUND 1015 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY
BUILDING...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE 
ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS 
SITUATION. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY 
FROM WINDOWS.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SATURDAY
MORNING/100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING/ FOR NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4672 10173 4672 10208 4663 10210 4664 10281
      4727 10215 4728 10127 4724 10121 4728 10119
      4728 10102 4725 10097 4717 10097 4663 10153
      4663 10171
TIME...MOT...LOC 0213Z 275DEG 37KT 4715 10207 4663 10266
WIND...HAIL 70MPH <.75IN

$$

SCHECK

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 Jul 22, 6:18 PM MDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 6:18 PM MDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
718 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

.UPDATE...
TORNADO WATCHES 673 AND 674 ARE IN EFFECT FOR LARGE PARTS OF THE
COUNTY WARNING AREA UNTIL 2 AM CDT SATURDAY. SEE PRODUCT BISWCNBIS
REDEFINING STATEMENT FOR DETAILS.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WESTERN NORTH
DAKOTA. A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS IN EASTERN MONTANA WAS ADVANCING
TOWARD THE NORTH DAKOTA BORDER WITH WINDS 65 TO 75 MPH REPORTED
THROUGH EASTERN MONTANA.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ARE VERY HIGH THIS EVENING WEST...INCREASING
CENTRAL AFTER 9 PM CDT.

&&
.AVIATION...
TAFS REFLECT TIMING OF EXPECTED STORMS. AVIATION INTERESTS NEED
TO BE AWARE THAT THERE WILL BE SEVERE STORMS THIS EVENING AND
POSSIBLY OVERNIGHT...SPREADING WEST TO EAST. STORMS WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN...AND TORNADOES.

&&

.BIS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 1 AM CDT SATURDAY THROUGH SATURDAY
AFTERNOON FOR NDZ002>005-010>013-019>023-025-035>037-047-048-050-
051.

FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 7 AM CDT /6 AM MDT/ SATURDAY FOR NDZ001-
009-017-018-031>034-040>046.

&&

JP MARTIN

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 3:41 AM MDT, 16 hours 32 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
441 AM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-230945-
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-
441 AM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011 /341 AM MDT FRI JUL 22 2011/

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

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INITIATE ACROSS WESTERN AND
FAR SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. VERY LARGE
HAIL IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND A TORNADO OR TWO MAY BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS...IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAINFALL.

THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE ACROSS THE WEST AND
CENTRAL FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING...WITH THE PRIMARY
THREATS TRANSITIONING TO DAMAGING WINDS AND POTENTIAL FLASH
FLOODING. WHILE LOCATIONS THAT HAVE RECEIVED SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL
OVER THE PAST WEEK ARE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLASH FLOODING...THE
THREAT OF MANY AREAS BEING IMPACTED BY MULTIPLE THUNDERSTORMS WITH
RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR SUGGEST FLASH
FLOODING MAY BE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA FRIDAY EVENING INTO SATURDAY MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH
HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA FOR FRIDAY
EVENING AND NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...ARE LIKELY
ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN IS FORECAST TO RETURN TO WESTERN AND
CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA MONDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY...WITH MULTIPLE
ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE DURING THIS TIME FRAME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON
INTO SATURDAY MORNING.

AYD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:53 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
753 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0740 PM     TSTM WND GST     BEACH                   46.92N 104.00W
07/22/2011  M66 MPH          GOLDEN VALLEY      ND   CO-OP OBSERVER

            PEAK GUST OF 66 MPH WITH SUSTAINED WINDS AT 30 TO 35 MPH.

&&

LHUBER

Local storm report, Jul 22, 7:36 PM MDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
836 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0830 PM     TSTM WND GST     3 W AMIDON              46.48N 103.39W
07/22/2011  E60 MPH          SLOPE              ND   PUBLIC

            SOME TREE BRANCHES BROKEN OFF. STORM ONGOING AT 834 PM
            CDT.

&&

JP MARTIN

Local storm report, Jul 22, 7:39 PM MDT, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
839 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0831 PM     TSTM WND GST     2 NE GRASSY BUTTE       47.41N 103.22W
07/22/2011  E60 MPH          MCKENZIE           ND   CO-OP OBSERVER

            AT LEAST 60 MPH STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

&&

PAYD

Local storm report, Jul 22, 7:41 PM MDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
841 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0839 PM     TSTM WND GST     KILLDEER                47.37N 102.75W
07/22/2011  M59 MPH          DUNN               ND   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

LHUBER

Local storm report, Jul 22, 7:45 PM MDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
845 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0835 PM     TORNADO          BELFIELD                46.89N 103.20W
07/22/2011                   STARK              ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED DEBRIS ON THE SOUTH SIDE
            OF CITY...NO VISIBLE FUNNEL...

&&

LHUBER

Local storm report, Jul 22, 8:02 PM MDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
902 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0846 PM     HEAVY RAIN       6 N KILLDEER            47.46N 102.75W
07/22/2011  M1.50 INCH       DUNN               ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            45 MINUTE STORM TOTAL.

&&

LHUBER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 6:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope	60 min
Jul 22, 6:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie, Williams	65 min
Jul 22, 6:48 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	6 hr
Jul 22, 7:04 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie, Stark	6 hr
Jul 22, 7:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	39 min
Jul 22, 7:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, Stark	65 min
Jul 22, 7:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope	60 min
Jul 22, 7:18 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Billings, Stark	27 min
Jul 22, 7:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail	58 min
Jul 22, 7:41 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Billings, Stark	34 min
Jul 22, 7:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail	6 hr
Jul 22, 7:55 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dunn	35 min
Jul 22, 8:08 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Slope, Stark	37 min
Jul 22, 8:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Grant, Hettinger	60 min
Jul 22, 8:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail, Oliver, Ward	53 min
Jul 22, 8:33 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Slope	27 min
Jul 22, 8:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	24 min
Jul 22, 8:56 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger	34 min
Jul 22, 9:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton, Oliver	30 min
Jul 22, 9:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton, Oliver	63 min
Jul 22, 9:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Mercer, Oliver, Sheridan	61 min
Jul 22, 9:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Hettinger, Morton and 1 more	59 min
Jul 22, 9:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux	35 min
Jul 22, 9:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton, Oliver	33 min
Jul 22, 9:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton, Sioux	24 min
Jul 22, 10:02 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Adams, Sioux	13 min
Jul 22, 10:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Foster, Kidder, Morton, Sheridan, Stutsman and 1 more	68 min
Jul 22, 10:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Oliver, Sheridan, Wells	67 min
Jul 22, 10:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Emmons, Grant, Logan, Morton, Sioux	64 min
Jul 22, 10:55 PM MDT	High Wind Warning	BIS	Burke, Divide, Dunn, McKenzie, Mountrail, Renville and 1 more	3 hr
Jul 22, 10:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Dickey, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh and 2 more	6 hr
Jul 22, 11:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, Emmons, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Sioux	52 min
Jul 22, 11:14 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Foster, Kidder, Stutsman, Wells	6 hr
Jul 22, 11:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Stutsman	59 min
Jul 22, 11:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Hettinger	54 min
Jul 22, 11:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh	63 min
Jul 23, 12:09 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	66 min
Jul 23, 12:15 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	60 min
Jul 23, 12:28 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	4 hr
Jul 23, 12:55 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	50 min
Jul 23, 1:01 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	12 hr
Jul 23, 2:04 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster and 15 more	4 hr
Jul 23, 5:01 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Foster, Kidder, Stutsman, Wells	8 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.