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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 4, 1994Williams County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1994, 11:59 PM CDT for Williams County, North Dakota. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1994, 11:59 PM CDT (04:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1994, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Williams County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 477 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1994-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 148 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1994-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2411 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 11:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie69 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.