Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1995, 7:11 PM CDT for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 1995, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 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 00:19 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, 0.2 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
- 540 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIS 210014 RRA SVRBIS NDC015-210115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 711 PM CDT THU JUL 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...CENTRAL BURLEIGH COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF BISMARCK WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS AND 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN BISMARCK AS THE THUNDERSTORM MOVED THROUGH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS TO THE NORTH OF MENOKEN AND MOVE TO THE TOWN OF WING BY 8 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. VAN ESS &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 7:10 PM CDT, 1 minute before
NDZ035-210100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 710 PM CDT THU JUL 20 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NOW EAST OF BISMARCK... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVED RAPIDLY THROUGH BISMARCK. SOME OF THE REPORTS AROUND THE CITY INCLUDED 1 INCH OF RAIN WITH WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING ...50 MPH WINDS WITH SOME TREE BRANCHES DOWN AND MOSTLY SMALL HAIL. IN NORTHEAST BISMARCK...DIVIDE FROM 12TH STREET EAST REPORTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS...MARBLE TO 3/4 INCH HAIL AND SOME PROPERTY DAMAGE. AT THE BISMARCK AIRPORT THE WIND GUSTED TO 41 MPH...NO HAIL AND RAINFALL UNDER 1/4 INCH. RVE/RGT
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 7:11 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
NDZ035-210100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 710 PM CDT THU JUL 20 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NOW EAST OF BISMARCK... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVED RAPIDLY THROUGH BISMARCK. SOME OF THE REPORTS AROUND THE CITY INCLUDED 1 INCH OF RAIN WITH WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING ...50 MPH WINDS WITH SOME TREE BRANCHES DOWN AND MOSTLY SMALL HAIL. IN NORTHEAST BISMARCK...DIVIDE FROM 12TH STREET EAST REPORTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS...MARBLE TO 3/4 INCH HAIL AND SOME PROPERTY DAMAGE. AT THE BISMARCK AIRPORT THE WIND GUSTED TO 41 MPH...NO HAIL AND RAINFALL UNDER 1/4 INCH. RVE/RGT
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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.