Alert archive / North Dakota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2012, 5:28 PM CDT for McLean County, Mountrail County, North Dakota. It was in force for 98 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
- Jun 7, 2012, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2012, 7:06 PM CDT
- In force
- 98 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties McLean County, ND, Mountrail County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -348 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
405
WGUS53 KBIS 072228
FFWBIS
NDC055-061-080130-
/O.NEW.KBIS.FF.W.0001.120607T2228Z-120608T0130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
528 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN MCLEAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHEASTERN MOUNTRAIL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
* AT 526 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL HAD MOVED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO SIX
INCHES OF RAINFALL WAS MEASURED.
* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF NORTHWESTERN MCLEAN AND SOUTHEASTERN MOUNTRAIL COUNTIES...
INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF PARSHALL AND RAUB.
WATER IS REPORTED RUNNING OVER HIGHWAY 37 NEAR AND SOUTH OF
PARSHALL.
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 4798 10199 4777 10190 4773 10200 4775 10216
4797 10228
$$
HEINERT/HW1 follow-up statement
003
WGUS73 KBIS 080006
FFSBIS
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
706 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2012
NDC055-061-080019-
/O.CAN.KBIS.FF.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120608T0130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MCLEAN ND-MOUNTRAIL ND-
706 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2012
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
MOUNTRAIL AND NORTHWESTERN MCLEAN COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS
AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO
RECEDE. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED WATER WHICH WAS FLOWING OVER
HIGHWAY 37 HAS RECEDED.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF FLOODING WAS OBSERVED PLEASE RELAY YOUR REPORT TO LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AND TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK AT
701-223-4582.
&&
LAT...LON 4798 10199 4777 10190 4773 10200 4775 10216
4797 10228
$$
HEINERT/HWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Mercer | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 36 min |
| Jun 6, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail, Renville, Ward | 58 min |
| Jun 6, 11:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Pierce | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 2:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Dunn, McKenzie, Mountrail, Williams | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Mountrail, Ward | 58 min |
| Jun 7, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, McLean, Ward | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 4:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | McHenry, Ward | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Ward | 61 min |
| Jun 7, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Pierce, Sheridan | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 6:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Pierce | 3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.