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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 10, 1995Billings County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1995, 10:16 PM MDT for Billings County, North Dakota. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1995, 10:16 PM MDT (04:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1995, 11:15 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Billings County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 201 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:17 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 1995-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1194 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 1995-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
1194 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1462 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 11:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDunn67 min
Jul 10, 11:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBowman, Slope29 min
Jul 11, 3:31 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Morton44 min
Jul 11, 4:16 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton44 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.