Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1992, 6:44 PM CDT for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1992, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1992, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burleigh County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 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, Jun 16, 4:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
NDZ012>018-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 425 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN LIKELY FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA TONIGHT... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA TONIGHT. THE STORMS WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. RAINFALL IN THE LAST 24 HOURS IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA RANGED FROM TWO TO FOUR INCHES. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IN THIS AREA TONIGHT MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ALSO SOME STREET FLOODING. MOTORISTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO USE CAUTION WHEN DRIVING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ON WATER COVERED ROADS. < ROLETTO
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
NDZ001>011-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 500 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKTOA... AT 500 PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER SOUTH OF ELGIN TO 25 MILES WEST OF BISMARCK...NEAR NEW SALEM... TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF MINOT...NEAR COLE HARBOR. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE THAT MAY PRODUCE HAIL ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES WERE LOCATED 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK...NEAR ELGIN...AND 25 MILES WEST OF BISMARCK...NEAR NEW SALEM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OFU SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. JOBE
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:49 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
NDZ001>013-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 545 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.. AT 540 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER...75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF MINOT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WHICH LIKELY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK AND 36 MILES NORTHWEST OF BISMARCK. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS INLUDE CARSON AND CENTER. PERSONS IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER AS THIS THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. LEBLANG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 28 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.