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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 6, 1995Billings County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 7:42 PM MDT for Billings County, North Dakota. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1995, 7:42 PM MDT (01:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1995, 8:45 PM MDT
In force
63 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 01:46 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, 1.7 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 1995-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 844 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
844 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1463 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KISN 070144 RRA
SVRISN
NDC007-070245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
842 PM CDT (742 PM MDT) TUE JUN 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLISTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT (845 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...BILLINGS COUNTY
      INCLUDING THE CITY OF MEDORA
 
AT 740 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST WEST OF THEORDORE ROOSEVELT
NATIONAL PARK. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AND HOUR.
IN ADDITION...RAINFALL UP TO 2 INCHES IS LIKELY IN A SHORT PERIOD OF
TIME WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
SCARLETT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 6:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGolden Valley64 min
Jun 6, 8:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBillings50 min
Jun 6, 9:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStark55 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.