Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Bismarck, ND
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 5:10 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Grant, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 54 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.