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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Bismarck, ND

September 12, 1992Grant County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 1992, 4:51 PM MDT for Grant County, North Dakota. It was in force for 24 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
Sep 12, 1992, 4:51 PM MDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired
Sep 12, 1992, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Grant County, ND

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 12, 5:10 PM MDTHail 1.75Grant, 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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 1992-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 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, Sep 12, 4:12 PM MDT, 39 minutes before
NDZ003-005-006-007-011-122330

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
410 PM MDT SAT SEP 12 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN NORTHWEST OLIVER COUNTY...

AT 4 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN WESTERN OLIVER
COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 50 MILES EAST OF DICKINSON AND
WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ON THIS PATH...THE STORMS WILL MOVE
THROUGH EASTERN MERCER COUNTY AND PASS JUST EAST OF BEULAH BY 420 PM MDT
AND THROUGH HAZEN BY 430 PM MDT.

THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THEY ALSO
LIKELY CONTAIN SOME HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN EASTERN MERCER
COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS ASR THE CONDITIONS
ARE RIGHT FOR FURTHER STRENGTHENING OF THE STORMS THIS EVENING.

TAKE SHELTER OF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
ABELING

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton54 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.