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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Bismarck, ND

September 14, 1994Morton County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 1994, 9:09 PM MDT for Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 14, 1994, 9:09 PM MDT (03:09 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 1994, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Morton County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2312 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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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

Local storm report, Sep 14, 7:08 PM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
805 PM CDT WED SEP 14 1994

TIME         EVENT                    LOCATION

543 PM CDT   3/4 INCH DIAMETER HAIL   2 MILES EAST OF GRASSY BUTTE ND
             AND "TORRENTIAL RAIN"    SOUTHEAST MCKENZIE COUNTY

800 PM CDT   A FEW GOLF BALL SIZE     BUFORD ND...SW WILLIAMS COUNTY
             HAIL STONES...MOSTLY     (REPORTED BY FORT BUFORD
             JELLY BEAN SIZE          STATE HISTORIC SITE CARTAKER)

JP MARTIN

Local storm report, Sep 14, 7:09 PM MDT, 2 hours before

STORM REPORT...CORRECTED SPELLING...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
805 PM CDT WED SEP 14 1994

TIME         EVENT                    LOCATION

543 PM CDT   3/4 INCH DIAMETER HAIL   2 MILES EAST OF GRASSY BUTTE ND
             AND "TORRENTIAL RAIN"    SOUTHEAST MCKENZIE COUNTY

800 PM CDT   A FEW GOLF BALL SIZE     BUFORD ND...SW WILLIAMS COUNTY
             HAIL STONES...MOSTLY     (REPORTED BY FORT BUFORD
             JELLY BEAN SIZE          STATE HISTORIC SITE CARETAKER)

JP MARTIN

Special weather statement, Sep 14, 7:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

NDZ001>053-MNZ001>003-150130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
835 PM CDT WED SEP 14 1994

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN AND MUCH
OF CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 1 AM CDT...

AT 825 PM CDT...BISMARCK WEATHER RADAR SHOWED 2 THUNDERSTORMS IN
SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. ONE WAS 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK
OR 2 MILES NORTH OF CARSON. THE OTHER WAS 40 MILES SOUTH OF BISMARCK
OR 4 MILES NORTH OF SHIELDS. THE STORMS LIKELY CONTAINED BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. THEY WERE MOVING NORTH 15
MPH.

FARTHER WEST...ANOTHER STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF DICKINSON
ALONG THE DUNN COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM REPORTEDLY DROPPED PEA TO MARBLE
SIZE HAIL AND CAUSED SOME WIND DAMAGE IN DICKINSON EARLIER THIS EVENING.
THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING NORTH 15 MPH.
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PERSONS IN THE PATHS OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS.

LM

Special weather statement, Sep 14, 7:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

NDZ001>053-MNZ001>003-150130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
835 PM CDT WED SEP 14 1994

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN AND MUCH
OF CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 1 AM CDT...

AT 825 PM CDT...BISMARCK WEATHER RADAR SHOWED 2 THUNDERSTORMS IN
SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. ONE WAS 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK
OR 2 MILES NORTH OF CARSON. THE OTHER WAS 40 MILES SOUTH OF BISMARCK
OR 4 MILES NORTH OF SHIELDS. THE STORMS LIKELY CONTAINED BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. THEY WERE MOVING NORTH 15
MPH.

FARTHER WEST...ANOTHER STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF DICKINSON
ALONG THE DUNN COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM REPORTEDLY DROPPED PEA TO MARBLE
SIZE HAIL AND CAUSED SOME WIND DAMAGE IN DICKINSON EARLIER THIS EVENING.
THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING NORTH 15 MPH.
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PERSONS IN THE PATHS OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS.

LM

Special weather statement, Sep 14, 8:22 PM MDT, 47 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 14, 6:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings	60 min
Sep 14, 6:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman, Slope	20 min
Sep 14, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	63 min
Sep 14, 8:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	44 min
Sep 14, 8:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn	61 min
Sep 14, 9:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	21 min
Sep 14, 10:35 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Ward	40 min
Sep 14, 11:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	27 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.