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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 20, 1995Morton County, Oliver County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1995, 11:27 AM MDT for Morton County, Oliver County, North Dakota. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1995, 11:27 AM MDT (17:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 1995, 12:15 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Morton County, ND, Oliver County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 49 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 1995-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1456 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 1995-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 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
1456 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 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
Jun 19, 6:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMercer51 min
Jun 19, 7:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean, Mercer30 min
Jun 19, 10:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDivide68 min
Jun 19, 11:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDivide61 min
Jun 20, 11:59 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean, Mercer, Oliver46 min
Jun 20, 12:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh63 min
Jun 20, 12:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton36 min
Jun 20, 1:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons31 min
Jun 20, 1:46 PM MDTTornado WarningBISMcHenry29 min
Jun 20, 4:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISKidder, Wells52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.