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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 21, 2013Bottineau County, McHenry County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2013, 1:19 PM CDT for Bottineau County, McHenry County, North Dakota. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2013, 1:19 PM CDT (18:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2013, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bottineau County, ND, McHenry County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 1045 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jun 21, 1:17 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 1:17 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 11:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1106 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013

NDZ023-025-036-037-046>048-050-051-221615-
WELLS-FOSTER-KIDDER-STUTSMAN-EMMONS-LOGAN-LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-
DICKEY-
1106 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY. MULTIPLE PERIODS
OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE THE CHANCE FOR FLASH FLOODING.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...WITH
THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING LIKELY THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. SOME
STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY
RAINFALL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

EXPECT ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...WITH
HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE. THE SOUTHERN JAMES RIVER
VALLEY IS MOST AT RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NDZ004-011-012-221615-
BOTTINEAU-WARD-MCHENRY-
1106 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA. FOR DETAILS GO TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BIS. CLICK ON THE
RIVERS AND LAKES TAB NEAR THE TOP OF THE MAIN PAGE.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...WITH
THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING LIKELY THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. SOME
STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY
RAINFALL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

EXPECT ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...WITH HEAVY RAIN
AND FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE
MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NDZ001>003-005-009-010-013-017>022-031>035-040>045-221615-
DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-
DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-
MORTON-BURLEIGH-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-
1106 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013 /1006 AM MDT FRI JUN 21 2013/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS MORNING AND
AFTERNOON...WITH THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING LIKELY THIS EVENING AND
TONIGHT SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND ISOLATED
TORNADOES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

EXPECT ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...WITH HEAVY RAIN
AND FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE
MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

HEINERT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 21, 12:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1201 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 2013

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

1200 PM     TSTM WND GST     MOTT                    46.37N 102.33W
06/21/2013  E60 MPH          HETTINGER          ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTING

&&

AC

Local storm report, Jun 21, 12:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 12:29 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 12:58 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 1:07 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 1:08 PM CDT, 11 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 20, 7:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan	6 hr
Jun 20, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	59 min
Jun 20, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan, McIntosh	64 min
Jun 20, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Logan	53 min
Jun 20, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	60 min
Jun 20, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure, Stutsman	61 min
Jun 20, 11:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan	24 hr
Jun 21, 6:28 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	Adams, Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Dunn, Grant and 12 more	5 hr
Jun 21, 11:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	52 min
Jun 21, 12:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Hettinger	44 min
Jun 21, 12:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Sioux	55 min
Jun 21, 12:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	6 hr
Jun 21, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	47 min
Jun 21, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Sioux	48 min
Jun 21, 1:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Grant, Morton	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2013 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.