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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 6, 1994Benson County, Ramsey County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1994, 10:31 PM CDT for Benson County, Ramsey County, North Dakota. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 6, 1994, 10:31 PM CDT (03:31 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 1994, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Benson County, ND, Ramsey County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 1994-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1834 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 1994-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 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
1834 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
16.9

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISRamsey55 min
Aug 6, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISFoster40 min
Aug 6, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEddy42 min
Aug 6, 11:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISFoster40 min
Aug 7, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke54 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.