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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 22, 1995McKenzie County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 5:31 PM CDT for McKenzie County, North Dakota. It was in force for 59 min.

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The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1995, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County McKenzie County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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 1995-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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 1995-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KISN 222232 RRA
SVRISN
NDC053-222330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
531 PM CDT THU JUN 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLISTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...NORTHERN MCKENZIE COUNTY
      INCLUDING ARNEGARD AND WATFORD CITY
 
AT 530 CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 25 MILES SOUTH OF WILLISTON...NEAR
ARNEGARD. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS PRODUCED MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCT$IVE 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 ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
SCARLETT
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie56 min

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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.