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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 11, 1995Hettinger County, Slope County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1995, 8:23 PM MDT for Hettinger County, Slope County, North Dakota. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1995, 8:23 PM MDT (02:23 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1995, 9:06 PM MDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hettinger County, ND, Slope County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:26 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 1995-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3653 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 1995-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 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
3653 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1375 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.5

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 8:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISHettinger, Stark61 min
Jul 11, 9:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMercer, Morton, Oliver69 min
Jul 11, 9:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant69 min
Jul 11, 9:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDunn, McKenzie56 min
Jul 11, 10:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMercer, Morton, Oliver57 min
Jul 11, 10:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh57 min
Jul 11, 10:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISSioux57 min
Jul 11, 10:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean46 min
Jul 11, 10:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh, Emmons, Kidder65 min
Jul 11, 10:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISSheridan65 min
Jul 11, 11:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWells40 min
Jul 11, 11:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISLogan, McIntosh, Stutsman62 min
Jul 12, 12:09 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDickey, LaMoure66 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.