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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 12, 1995Adams County, Hettinger County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1995, 7:53 PM MDT for Adams County, Hettinger County, North Dakota. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 12, 1995, 7:53 PM MDT (01:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 1995, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties Adams County, ND, Hettinger County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1559 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -245 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 130157 RRA
SVRBIS
NDC001-041-089-130300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
853 PM CDT (753 PM MDT) WED JUL 12 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT (900 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...ADAMS COUNTY...HETTINGER COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...STARK COUNTY
 
AT 750 PM MDT/850 PM CDT...A LINE OF SEVER THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FRO
NMEDORA...30 MILES WEST OF DICKINSON TO SOUTHERN SLOPE COUNTY...40 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF DICKINSON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING 60 MPH PLUS WINDS AT
BAKER MONTANA.
 
TOWNS IN THE WARNING...DICKINSON...NEW ENGLAND...MOTT...HETTINGER.
 
 
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\DH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 7:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman, Slope	60 min
Jul 12, 7:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings	59 min
Jul 12, 7:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	67 min
Jul 12, 9:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	60 min
Jul 12, 9:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	65 min
Jul 12, 9:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	61 min
Jul 12, 9:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	39 min
Jul 13, 12:13 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1995 Every 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.