Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1994, 5:24 PM MDT for Hettinger County, Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1994, 5:24 PM MDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1994, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hettinger County, ND, Stark County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 13, 4:57 PM MDT, 27 minutes before
NDZ017>021-031>043-040>045-132345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 455 PM MDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA... AT 450 PM MDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF AMIDON...OR 21 MILES NORTH OF BOWMAN. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH. PERSO>NS IN NORTHEAST SLOPE AND SOUTHERN STARK COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AS THIS STORM APPROACHES. LEBLANG
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:06 PM MDT, 18 minutes before
NDZ001-009-017-018-031-032-140005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 605 PM CDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE ENTERING NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA... AT 6 PM CDT...5 PM MDT...AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. THIS AREA EXTENDED FROM 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILLISTON TO 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILLISTON. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILLISTON...15 MILES NORTH OF SIDNEY MONTANA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. PERSONS IN WESTERN MCKENZIE AND WILLIAMS COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THIS THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS DEADLY LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RTAIN...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...TAKE SHELTER. SCARLETT
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:13 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
NDZ017>021-031>043-040>045-140000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 510 PM MDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA... AT 505 PM MDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED 21 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF DICKINSON OR 8 MILES SOUTH OF BELFIELD. THE OTHER STORM WAS 28 MILES NORTH OF BOWMAN OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF AMIDON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE DICKINSON AREA BETWEEN 530 AND 600 PM MDT. VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN STARK COUNTY...INCLUDING THE DICKINSON AREA` AND IN HETTINGER COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF NEW ENGLAND SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. LEBLANG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Hettinger | 31 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.