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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 3, 1995Emmons County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 5:21 PM CDT for Emmons County, North Dakota. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1995, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Emmons County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1995-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 347 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1995-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -64 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
347 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-262 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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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
Jul 2, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh, Morton58 min
Jul 3, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Hettinger41 min
Jul 3, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton40 min
Jul 3, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningBISEmmons32 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.