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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 13, 1995Dunn County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1995, 9:52 PM MDT for Dunn County, North Dakota. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1995, 9:52 PM MDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1995, 10:48 PM MDT
In force
56 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 03:56 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, 3.9 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 1995-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1539 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 1995-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1539 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1037 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.3

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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 13, 7:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie68 min
Jul 13, 10:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean, Mercer68 min

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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.