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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 15, 1994Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1994, 4:52 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1994, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1994, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Stutsman County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 445 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 12:00Z on 1994-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 127 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 12:00Z on 1994-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
127 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 1:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISFoster, Stutsman44 min
Jul 15, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton41 min
Jul 15, 2:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1994Every 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.