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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 28, 1990McKenzie County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1990, 9:22 PM CDT for McKenzie County, North Dakota. It was in force for 48 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 28, 1990, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1990, 10:10 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County McKenzie 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 28, 9:35 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 62	Mckenzie, 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 28, 4:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

NDZALL-282300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
540 PM CDT THU JUN 28 1990

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PARTS
OF NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...CAVALIER...PEMBINA...BENSON...
RAMSEY AND WALSH.

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF
EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 10 PM CDT TONIGHT...
VAN ESS

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 6:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

NDZALL-290030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
700 PM CDT THU JUN 28 1990

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE THUONDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR ANY PORTION OF
EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DISSIPATED.
VAN ESS

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

NDZ002-290145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
745 PM CDT THU JUN 28 1990

...INTENSE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NORTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA...

AT 740 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR IN WILLISTON INDICATED AN INTENSE
THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES WEST OF WILLISTON NORTH DAKOTA...OR 10 MILES
EAST OF THE TOWN OF CULBERTSON IN ROOSEVELT COUNTY MONTANA.  THIS
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED GOLF-BALL SIZED HAIL AS IT PASSED NORTH OF
WOLF POINT MONTANA EARLIER THIS EVENING.  THIS STORM WILL ENTER
WESTERN WILLIAMS COUNTY IN NORTH DAKOTA ABOUT 8 PM CDT AND WILL
ENTER THE CITY OF WILLISTON AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING
MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS WILLIAMS COUNTY.

CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
LEWIS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	69 min
Jun 28, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McKenzie	29 min
Jun 28, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	29 min
Jun 28, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	58 min
Jun 28, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	35 min
Jun 29, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	64 min
Jun 29, 3:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	51 min
Jun 29, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	68 min
Jun 29, 4:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Oliver	43 min
Jun 29, 8:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Stark	20 min
Jun 29, 9:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	35 min
Jun 29, 9:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.