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Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 11, 2016Dickey County, LaMoure County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this areal flood warning at Jul 11, 2016, 7:25 AM CDT for Dickey County, LaMoure County, North Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 2016, 7:25 AM CDT (12:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2016, 10:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Dickey County, ND, LaMoure County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood 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 areal flood warning went out at Jul 11, 6:40 AM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 6:40 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 5:04 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
504 AM CDT MON JUL 11 2016

NDZ004-005-012-013-022-023-025-036-037-047-048-050-051-121015-
BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-MCHENRY-PIERCE-SHERIDAN-WELLS-FOSTER-KIDDER-
STUTSMAN-LOGAN-LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY-
504 AM CDT MON JUL 11 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

STRONG WESTERLY WINDS WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH POSSIBLE
TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

NDZ001>003-009>011-017>021-031>035-040>046-121015-
DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD-MCKENZIE-DUNN-
MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-
SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-
504 AM CDT MON JUL 11 2016 /404 AM MDT MON JUL 11 2016/

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...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. THE RISK FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IS LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

STRONG WESTERLY WINDS WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH POSSIBLE
TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 3:58 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:21 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 11, 4:23 AM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 5:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 11, 6:33 AM CDT, 52 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
Jul 10, 7:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Stark	3 hr
Jul 10, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burke	49 min
Jul 10, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Morton, Sioux, Stark	58 min
Jul 10, 7:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	47 min
Jul 10, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	65 min
Jul 10, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Morton, Sioux	62 min
Jul 10, 8:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	3 hr
Jul 10, 8:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McHenry, McLean, Sheridan	51 min
Jul 10, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Renville	40 min
Jul 10, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, Morton and 1 more	56 min
Jul 10, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Pierce, Sheridan, Wells	44 min
Jul 10, 10:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh	19 hr
Jul 10, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Sheridan, Wells	57 min
Jul 10, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman	34 min
Jul 10, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh and 1 more	61 min
Jul 10, 11:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	3 hr
Jul 10, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman	67 min
Jul 10, 11:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	32 min
Jul 11, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	63 min
Jul 11, 12:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	43 min
Jul 11, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	63 min
Jul 11, 12:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	32 min
Jul 11, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Sioux	65 min
Jul 11, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	35 min
Jul 11, 1:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Logan	35 min
Jul 11, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	55 min
Jul 11, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Morton, Sioux	23 min
Jul 11, 2:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey	44 min
Jul 11, 2:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan, McIntosh	64 min
Jul 11, 3:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure, McIntosh	45 min
Jul 11, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	32 min
Jul 11, 4:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Logan	24 min
Jul 11, 4:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	24 min
Jul 11, 5:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Logan	27 min
Jul 11, 10:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Dickey	27 hr
Jul 11, 1:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	36 min
Jul 11, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	34 min
Jul 11, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sioux	50 min
Jul 11, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Morton	24 min
Jul 11, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Morton	41 min
Jul 11, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Morton, Sioux	42 min
Jul 11, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sioux	47 min
Jul 11, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Kidder, Logan	48 min
Jul 11, 5:37 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 3 more	4 hr
Jul 11, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Wells	24 min
Jul 11, 6:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Foster, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman, Wells	44 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 2016 Every areal flood warning in 2016

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.