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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 3, 1986Logan County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1986, 5:03 PM CDT for Logan County, North Dakota. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1986, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1986, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Logan County, ND

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 100 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1986-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 117 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1986-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 236 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-419 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
245 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 1986

...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER SOUTHCENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

AT 235 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES
NORTHEAST OF JAMESTOWN IN NORTHEAST STUTSMAN COUNTY. OTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING IN EASTERN HETTINGER..EASTERN ADAMS..
AND SOUTHWEST GRANT COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. THESE STORMS
ARE 60 TO 100 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK. ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH.

BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY OVER SOUTHERN AND
EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS
SHOULD CONTINUE MONITORING WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY FOR POSSIBLE
SEVERE STORMS.

STOLTZ
Local storm report, Jun 3, 3:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
300 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 1986..DATE OF OCCURRANCE WAS MON JUN 2 1986

TIME    ZONE   EVENT..LOCATION..REMARKS..

720 PM  CDT    WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH..ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINS..WERE
               REPORTED AT ST. JOHN..IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
               NEAR THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER.

744 PM  CDT    WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH REPORTED 10 MILES NORTHEAST
               OF  CANDO. THE HIGH WINDS REDUCED VISIBILITIES
               TO 1/2 MILE IN BLOWING DUST.

805 PM  CDT    HAIL ONE INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED ON A FARM
               3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOHALL.

835 PM  CDT    HAIL 3/4 OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED IN
               MOHALL.
RCM
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:45 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISRolette, Towner30 min
Jun 2, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISRamsey30 min
Jun 2, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDivide, Williams55 min
Jun 2, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau, Renville30 min
Jun 2, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau, Renville30 min
Jun 3, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISLogan33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.