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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 9, 1995Grant County, Morton County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 8:12 PM MDT for Grant County, Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1995, 8:12 PM MDT (02:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1995, 9:05 PM MDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Grant County, ND, Morton County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 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 1995-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2490 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 1995-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 5:22 PM MDT, 2 hours 50 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, 5:24 PM MDT, 2 hours 48 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISKidder, Logan60 min
Jul 9, 8:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Sioux26 min
Jul 9, 9:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons58 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.