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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 2, 1986Ramsey County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1986, 7:15 PM CDT for Ramsey County, North Dakota. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1986, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1986, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Ramsey County, ND

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 2, 7:44 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56	Ramsey, ND

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 375 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: 1838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 030018
SVRBIS
NDC079-095-071-030045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
715 PM CDT MON JUN  2 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES OF

NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA..TOWNER AND RAMSEY
NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA..ROLETTE

AT 715 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES
NORTHWEST OF ROLLA NORTH DAKOTA OR 67 MILES NORTHWEST OF
DEVILS LAK NORTH DAKOTA AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE WARNED AREA CONSIDER GETTING INTO
A REINFORCED SHELTER. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE DEADLY
DUE TO..LIGHTNING..HAIL.K.HEAVY RAINS..FLASH FLOODS..AND
STRONG WINDS. ALSO THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY
DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
KS 0015Z

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette, Towner	30 min
Jun 2, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	55 min
Jun 2, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Renville	30 min
Jun 2, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Renville	30 min
Jun 3, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan	33 min
Jun 3, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1986 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.