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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 10, 1995Dunn County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1995, 11:23 PM MDT for Dunn County, North Dakota. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1995, 11:23 PM MDT (05:23 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1995, 12:30 AM MDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Dunn County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KISN 110525 RRA
SVRISN
NDC025-110630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
1223 AM CDT (1123 PM MDT) TUE JUL 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLISTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 AM CDT (1230 AM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN DUNN COUNTY
 
AT 1120 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF DICKINSON
MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MILES AN HOUR AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAI$L...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.
 
 
SCARLETT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 10:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBillings59 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.