Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 1992, 4:51 PM MDT for Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 1992, 4:51 PM MDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 1992, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morton County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBIS 122251
SVRBIS
NDC059-037-122345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
451 PM MDT SAT SEP 12 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
WESTERN MORTON...
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
NORTHWEST GRANT...
AT 445 PM MDT BISMARCK RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18
MILES SOUTH OF HEBRON OR 50 MILES WEST OF BISMARCK. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TOWN OF GLEN ULLIN IS IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAIN MAY FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY
SO AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
MANTHEWhat 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 | Grant | 24 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.