Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1995, 11:03 PM CDT for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 1995, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1995, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burleigh County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 29 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIS 120407 RRA SVRBIS NDC015-057-059-065-085-120500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1103 PM CDT (1003 PM MDT) TUE JUL 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT (1100 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...WESTERN BURLEIGH COUNTY...NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY ...EASTERN MORTON COUNTY...EASTERN OLIVER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...SIOUX COUNTY AT 11 PM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND FROM WESTERN MERCER COUNTY...50 MILES NORTHEAST OF DICKINSON SOUTH TO THE SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER...80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK. THESE STORM WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.. THESE STORM HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND GUST TO 80 MILES AN HOUR. TOWNS IN THE WARNING...BISMARCK...MANDAN AND CENTER. 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger, Slope | 43 min |
| Jul 11, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger, Stark | 61 min |
| Jul 11, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mercer, Morton, Oliver | 69 min |
| Jul 11, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant | 69 min |
| Jul 11, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McKenzie | 56 min |
| Jul 11, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mercer, Morton, Oliver | 57 min |
| Jul 11, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Sioux | 57 min |
| Jul 11, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean | 46 min |
| Jul 11, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder | 65 min |
| Jul 11, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Sheridan | 65 min |
| Jul 12, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Wells | 40 min |
| Jul 12, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman | 62 min |
| Jul 12, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey, LaMoure | 66 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.