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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 13, 1994Morton County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1994, 7:42 PM MDT for Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 1994, 7:42 PM MDT (01:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1994, 8:30 PM MDT
In force: 48 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, 1.7 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: 123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -224 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 510 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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, 5:13 PM MDT, 2 hours 29 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

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 6:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

NDZ001-002-009-010-017-018-031-032-140110-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON   ND
706 PM CDT MON JUN 13 1994

...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA...

AT 705 CDT...605 MDT...RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES
NORTHEAST OF DICKINSON...7 MILES EAST OF DUNN CENTER.  THIS
THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.  OTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 40 MILES NORTH OF DICKINSON...10 MILESX WEST
OF KILLDEER.

HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS LIKELY WILL ACCOMPANY THESE
THUNDERSTORMS

REMEMBER...THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO.
TAKE SHELTER.

SCARLETT

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 6:33 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 7:07 PM MDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 7:31 PM MDT, 11 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
Jun 13, 6:18 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Hettinger	27 min
Jun 13, 6:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant	53 min
Jun 13, 6:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	28 min
Jun 13, 7:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean	28 min
Jun 13, 8:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons	30 min
Jun 13, 8:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	47 min
Jun 13, 8:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Kidder, Logan	54 min
Jun 13, 11:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	54 min
Jun 13, 11:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder	24 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.