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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Bismarck, ND

September 4, 1995Foster County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 1995, 7:22 PM CDT for Foster County, North Dakota. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 4, 1995, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Foster County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 433 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, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 1995-09-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1140 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, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 1995-09-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 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
1140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 5, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant46 min
Sep 5, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh29 min
Sep 5, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISLogan, McIntosh43 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.