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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 2, 1995Burleigh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1995, 6:48 PM CDT for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1995, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Burleigh County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 29 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 55 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 250 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
55 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-484 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton66 min
Aug 2, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh52 min
Aug 2, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WarningBISBurleigh, Morton49 min
Aug 2, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISOliver42 min
Aug 2, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton54 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.