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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 9, 1995Kidder County, Logan County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT for Kidder County, Logan County, North Dakota. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kidder County, ND, Logan County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2490 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 7.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 100003 RRA
SVRBIS
NDC043-047-100100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
700 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN KIDDER COUNTY
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...NORTHERN LOGAN COUNTY
 
AT 7 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHERN KIDDER
COUNTY...15 MILES NORTH OF NAPOLEON...OR 43 MILES EAST OF BISMARCK.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM HAS A
HISTORY OF PORDUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
 
TOWNS IN THE WARNING...NAPOLEON.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 9, 6:22 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
624 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0620 PM    STEELE                    ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/09/95   KIDDER

Local storm report, Jul 9, 6:24 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
624 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0620 PM    STEELE                    ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/09/95   KIDDER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	53 min
Jul 9, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Sioux	26 min
Jul 9, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.