Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 6:49 PM MDT for Adams County, Hettinger County, North Dakota. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1992, 6:49 PM MDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1992, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, ND, Hettinger County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 246 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 18, 2:17 PM MDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
NDZ001>003-182115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 315 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA... AT AT 305 PM CDT..NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN INDICATED TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILLISTON OR 10 SOUTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF ARNEGARD IN MCKENZIE COUNTY. THE MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH...WHICH WILL HAVE THEM PASSING OVER THE KILLDEER MOUNTAINS AND THE TOWN OF KILLDEER DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED STRONG GUSTY WINDS...PEA SIZED HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS DURING THE PAST HOUR. IF THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER INDOORS.z LEWIS
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:53 PM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
NDZ001>018-182130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 350 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA... AT 340 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM MINOT SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS LAKE SAKAKAWEA TO NEAR DICKINSON. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST/SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ONE STRONG CELL WAS LOCATED NEAR RYDER IN WARD COUNTY...OR 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINOT. ANOTHER STRONG CELL WAS MOVING ACROSS LAKE SAKAKAWEA AND WAS LOCATED ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINOT. OTHER ISOLATED STRONG CELLS WERE LOCATED NEAR SOUTH HEART IN STARK COUNTY...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF DICKINSON AND NEAR TURTLE LAKE IN MCLEAN COUNTY...ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH OF BISMARCK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKES. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK A PLACE OF SHELTER. BOATERS ON CENTRAL LAKE SAKAKAWEA SHOULD HEAD FOR SHORE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. FORS
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:54 PM MDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
NDZ001>018-182130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTED DATE/TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 350 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA... AT 340 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM MINOT SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS LAKE SAKAKAWEA TO NEAR DICKINSON. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST/SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ONE STRONG CELL WAS LOCATED NEAR RYDER IN WARD COUNTY...OR 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINOT. ANOTHER STRONG CELL WAS MOVING ACROSS LAKE SAKAKAWEA AND WAS LOCATED ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINOT. OTHER ISOLATED STRONG CELLS WERE LOCATED NEAR SOUTH HEART IN STARK COUNTY...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF DICKINSON AND NEAR TURTLE LAKE IN MCLEAN COUNTY...ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH OF BISMARCK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKES. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK A PLACE OF SHELTER. BOATERS ON CENTRAL LAKE .SAKAKAWEA SHOULD HEAD FOR SHORE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. FORS
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
NDZ001>003-005-182335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 530 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA... AT AT 525 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM 60 MILES EAST OF WILLISTON. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR THE TOWN OF STANLEY IN MOUTRAIL COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL... BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUPS LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE TOWN OF PARSHALL AROUND 610 PM CDT. IF THESE STORMS APPROACHES YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. RICHMOND
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:41 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Logan, McIntosh | 49 min |
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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.