Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1995, 8:08 PM CDT for McLean County, North Dakota. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1995, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County McLean County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 16.4
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, Aug 17, 7:22 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
NDZ003>007-011>015-021>026-034>038-045>052-180225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 720 PM CDT (620 PM MDT) THU AUG 17 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND PARTS OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 1 AM CDT FRIDAY... THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES THESE MAJOR CITIES...MINOT...DEVILS LAKE... BISMARCK/MANDAN...AND JAMESTOWN. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. AT 715 PM CDT...615 MOUNTAIN...THE ONLY THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH DAKOTA WERE IN THE FAR SOUTHCENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. THE STORMS WERE SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK...NEAR THE SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER...AND SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT. THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP QUICKLY THIS EVENING...STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER. JP MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 9:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | McLean | 55 min |
| Aug 17, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McLean | 55 min |
| Aug 18, 3:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 59 min |
| Aug 18, 4:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn | 48 min |
| Aug 18, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 31 min |
| Aug 18, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 43 min |
| Aug 18, 6:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 42 min |
| Aug 18, 6:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Rolette | 29 min |
| Aug 18, 7:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce, Rolette | 38 min |
| Aug 18, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ramsey | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1995Every 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.