Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 20, 1995Burleigh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1995, 1:57 PM CDT for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 1995, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1995, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Burleigh County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 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-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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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

Local storm report, Jun 20, 1:17 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
118 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1995

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

1252 PM    HANNOVER                  ND   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/20/95   OLIVER                         ALSO HAD HAIL OF UNKNOWN
                                          SIZE (ESTIMATED 0.5 INCH)

1256 PM    CENTER                    ND   70 MPH WIND GUST
06/20/95   OLIVER                         LARGE TREES DOWN

0103 PM    NEW SALEM                 ND   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/20/95   MORTON                         *** 1 INJ ***
                                          SEMI FLIPPED OVER ON
                                          INTERSTATE OVERPASS (WIND
                                          ESTIMATED)

NOAH

Local storm report, Jun 20, 1:18 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
118 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1995

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

1252 PM    HANNOVER                  ND   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/20/95   OLIVER                         ALSO HAD HAIL OF UNKNOWN
                                          SIZE (ESTIMATED 0.5 INCH)

1256 PM    CENTER                    ND   70 MPH WIND GUST
06/20/95   OLIVER                         LARGE TREES DOWN

0103 PM    NEW SALEM                 ND   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/20/95   MORTON                         *** 1 INJ ***
                                          SEMI FLIPPED OVER ON
                                          INTERSTATE OVERPASS (WIND
                                          ESTIMATED)

NOAH

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, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	61 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	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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1995 Every 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.