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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 9, 1995Kidder County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 5:26 PM CDT for Kidder County, North Dakota. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1995, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Kidder County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 1995-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 692 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 1995-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 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
692 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1104 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 092229 RRA
SVRBIS
NDC043-092330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
526 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL KIDDER COUNTY
 
AT 525 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BY RADAR 30 MILES
NORTHEAST OF BISMARCK IN WEST CENTRAL KIDDER COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF DAWSON...STEELE AND TAPPEN.
 
 
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.
 
 
RR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningBISKidder30 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.