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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 16, 1993McIntosh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1993, 1:10 AM CDT for McIntosh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1993, 1:10 AM CDT (06:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1993, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County McIntosh County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 00:00Z on 1993-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 122 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1993-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 201 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
122 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-325 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
601 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
320 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 8:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBISBurleigh, Morton59 min
Jul 15, 9:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBISBurleigh, Emmons66 min
Jul 16, 1:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBISDickey, LaMoure, McIntosh65 min
Jul 16, 11:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBISBurleigh38 min
Jul 16, 12:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBISKidder12 min
Jul 16, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBenson, Wells51 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.