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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 19, 1995Mercer County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1995, 6:09 PM MDT for Mercer County, North Dakota. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 1995, 6:09 PM MDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1995, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Mercer County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 370 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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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

Local storm report, Jun 19, 1:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 1:31 PM MDT, 4 hours 38 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 19, 7:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	30 min
Jun 19, 10:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	68 min
Jun 19, 11:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	61 min
Jun 20, 11:27 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton, Oliver	48 min
Jun 20, 11:59 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	46 min
Jun 20, 12:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	63 min
Jun 20, 12:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	36 min
Jun 20, 1:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	31 min
Jun 20, 1:46 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry	29 min
Jun 20, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Wells	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.