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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 22, 20117 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2011, 11:07 PM CDT for 7 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 68 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 2011, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2011, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Burleigh County, ND, Foster County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Morton County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:11 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.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched 2 storm reports to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 3 minutes after it went out.

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, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Jul 22, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 38 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.

890 
WUUS53 KBIS 230407
SVRBIS
NDC015-031-043-059-083-093-103-230515-
/O.NEW.KBIS.SV.W.0168.110723T0407Z-110723T0515Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1107 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BURLEIGH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...
  SOUTHWESTERN FOSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...
  KIDDER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...
  EAST CENTRAL MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...
  SOUTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...
  WESTERN STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...
  SOUTHERN WELLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1101 PM CDT...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 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF REGAN TO ST. ANTHONY...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HUFF AROUND 1115 PM CDT.
  FORT RICE...MCKENZIE AND ARENA AROUND 1120 PM CDT.
  STERLING AROUND 1125 PM CDT.
  TUTTLE AROUND 1130 PM CDT.
  MOFFIT AND DRISCOLL AROUND 1135 PM CDT.
  HORSEHEAD LAKE AND ROBINSON AROUND 1145 PM CDT.
  STEELE AROUND 1150 PM CDT.
  LAKE WILLIAMS AND DAWSON AROUND 1155 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE 
ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL 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
FOR NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4663 9934 4664 10065 4659 10056 4658 10059
      4653 10054 4650 10059 4649 10101 4737 10067
      4739 9871
TIME...MOT...LOC 0407Z 269DEG 41KT 4723 10030 4658 10080
WIND...HAIL 70MPH <.75IN

$$

SCHECK/TAEGER

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, 7:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 7:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 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, 4:41 AM CDT, 18 hours 26 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, 10:49 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1049 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

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

1045 PM     HAIL             CROWN BUTTE LAKE        46.87N 101.09W
07/22/2011  M1.00 INCH       MORTON             ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

LHUBER

Local storm report, Jul 22, 10:50 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1050 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

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

1045 PM     TSTM WND GST     CROWN BUTTE LAKE        46.87N 101.09W
07/22/2011  E60 MPH          MORTON             ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

LHUBER

Local storm report, Jul 22, 11:00 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1100 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

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

1056 PM     TSTM WND GST     MANDAN                  46.83N 100.89W
07/22/2011  M63 MPH          MORTON             ND   ASOS

&&

LHUBER

Local storm report, Jul 22, 11:02 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1102 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

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

1054 PM     TSTM WND DMG     LAKE SAKAKAWEA STATE PA 47.53N 101.46W
07/22/2011                   MERCER             ND   PUBLIC

            CAMPERS FLIPPER OVER FROM WINDS. REPORT RELAYED BY MEDIA.

&&

PAYD

Local storm report, Jul 22, 11:03 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1103 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

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

1103 PM     FLASH FLOOD      NEW TOWN                47.98N 102.49W
07/22/2011                   MOUNTRAIL          ND   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            ESTIMATED 1 FOOT OF WATER ON MAIN STREET.

&&

LHUBER

Local storm report, Jul 22, 11:07 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1107 PM CDT FRI JUL 22 2011

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

1106 PM     HAIL             MANDAN                  46.83N 100.89W
07/22/2011  M1.00 INCH       MORTON             ND   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            ONGOING IN CITY.

&&

LHUBER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope	60 min
Jul 22, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie, Williams	65 min
Jul 22, 7:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	6 hr
Jul 22, 8:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie, Stark	6 hr
Jul 22, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	39 min
Jul 22, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, Stark	65 min
Jul 22, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope	60 min
Jul 22, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Billings, Stark	27 min
Jul 22, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail	58 min
Jul 22, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Billings, Stark	34 min
Jul 22, 8:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail	6 hr
Jul 22, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dunn	35 min
Jul 22, 9:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Slope, Stark	37 min
Jul 22, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Stark	62 min
Jul 22, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Grant, Hettinger	60 min
Jul 22, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail, Oliver, Ward	53 min
Jul 22, 9:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Slope	27 min
Jul 22, 9:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	24 min
Jul 22, 9:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger	34 min
Jul 22, 10:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton, Oliver	30 min
Jul 22, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton, Oliver	63 min
Jul 22, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Mercer, Oliver, Sheridan	61 min
Jul 22, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Hettinger, Morton and 1 more	59 min
Jul 22, 10:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux	35 min
Jul 22, 10:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton, Oliver	33 min
Jul 22, 10:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton, Sioux	24 min
Jul 22, 11:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Adams, Sioux	13 min
Jul 22, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Oliver, Sheridan, Wells	67 min
Jul 22, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Emmons, Grant, Logan, Morton, Sioux	64 min
Jul 22, 11:55 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	BIS	Burke, Divide, Dunn, McKenzie, Mountrail, Renville and 1 more	3 hr
Jul 22, 11:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Dickey, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh and 2 more	6 hr
Jul 23, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, Emmons, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Sioux	52 min
Jul 23, 12:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Foster, Kidder, Stutsman, Wells	6 hr
Jul 23, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Stutsman	59 min
Jul 23, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Hettinger	54 min
Jul 23, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh	63 min
Jul 23, 1:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	66 min
Jul 23, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	60 min
Jul 23, 1:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	4 hr
Jul 23, 1:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	50 min
Jul 23, 2:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	12 hr
Jul 23, 3:04 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster and 15 more	4 hr
Jul 23, 6:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Foster, Kidder, Stutsman, Wells	8 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.