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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 21, 20149 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this flash flood watch at Jun 21, 2014, 12:23 PM CDT for 9 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Jun 21, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2014, 12:23 PM CDT (17:23 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 21, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 22, 2014, 12:33 AM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Flood severity: None

Counties Dickey County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -255 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 234 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 21, 9:36 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 9:36 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 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 21, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	45 min
Jun 21, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McIntosh	40 min
Jun 21, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McIntosh	37 min
Jun 21, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, McIntosh	58 min
Jun 21, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McIntosh	23 min
Jun 21, 5:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	LaMoure	66 min
Jun 21, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey	63 min
Jun 21, 5:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	65 min
Jun 21, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey	28 min
Jun 21, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Stutsman	40 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.