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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 20, 1995Divide County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1995, 12:44 AM CDT for Divide County, North Dakota. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 1995, 12:44 AM CDT (05:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1995, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Divide County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 239 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KISN 200544 RRA
SVRISN
NDC023-200645-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
1244 AM CDT TUE JUN 20 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      WESTERN DIVIDE

AT 1240 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORTUNA.
A SPOTTER 1 MILE WEST OF FORTUNA REPORTED 3/4 INCH HAIL AT THAT
TIME.  THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY...
AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

 KENNEDY

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, 9:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
930 PM CDT MON JUN 19 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0735 PM    2NW BEULAH                ND   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/19/95   MERCER

0810 PM    15W GARRISON              ND   0.50 INCH HAIL
06/19/95   MCLEAN

LEBLANG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	51 min
Jun 19, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	30 min
Jun 19, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	68 min
Jun 20, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton, Oliver	48 min
Jun 20, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	46 min
Jun 20, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	63 min
Jun 20, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	36 min
Jun 20, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	31 min
Jun 20, 2:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry	29 min
Jun 20, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Wells	52 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.