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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 25, 201325 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood watch at Jun 25, 2013, 2:45 AM CDT for 25 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Jun 25, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2013, 2:45 AM CDT (07:45 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 25, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 25, 2013, 10:51 PM CDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Flood severity: None

All 25 counties

Bottineau County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grant County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND, Williams County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 415 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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -228 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jun 25, 1:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Ward	59 min
Jun 25, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry, Ward	29 min
Jun 25, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Morton, Sioux	64 min
Jun 25, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, McLean, Sheridan	60 min
Jun 25, 5:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Burke, Divide	6 hr
Jun 25, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	56 min
Jun 25, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sheridan	55 min
Jun 25, 5:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	6 hr
Jun 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons	56 min
Jun 25, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder	60 min

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.