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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 3, 1995Emmons County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 8:01 PM CDT for Emmons County, North Dakota. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1995, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
59 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 01:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 64 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 349 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
349 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 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 KBIS 040104 RRA
SVRBIS
NDC029-040200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTION
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
801 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

   ...EMMONS COUNTY

AT 8:00 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE
IN CENTRAL EMMONS COUNTY...40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK...OR 5 MILES
SOUTH OF LINTON...WITH ANOTHER SEVERE STORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CANNON
BALL. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE ALL SHOW
THEY ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...ALTHOUGH NONE HAVE YET TOUCHED
DOWN.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.


ABELING

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningBISEmmons30 min
Jul 3, 9:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBISEmmons8 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.