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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 7, 1995Williams County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1995, 10:06 PM CDT for Williams County, North Dakota. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1995, 10:06 PM CDT (03:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1995, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Williams County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 1995-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 1995-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 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 080307 RRA
SVRISN
NDC105-080415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
1006 PM CDT FRI JUL 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLISTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...WILLIAMS COUNTY
 
AT 1005 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
WILLISTON NORTH DAKOTA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND
WILL MOVE NEAR THE CITY OF WILLISTON BY 1025 PM CDT. THIS STORM HAS A
HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE 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.
 
TS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDivide48 min
Jul 7, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWilliams26 min
Jul 7, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStutsman53 min
Jul 7, 10:54 PM CDTTornado WarningBISDickey, LaMoure51 min
Jul 7, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWells45 min
Jul 7, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISFoster, Stutsman45 min
Jul 8, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStutsman64 min
Jul 8, 1:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDickey, LaMoure62 min
Jul 8, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISFoster31 min
Jul 8, 4:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcIntosh32 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.