Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 8:40 PM MDT for Billings County, North Dakota. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1995, 8:40 PM MDT (02:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1995, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 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 02:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 2.7 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KISN 070242 RRA SVRISN NDC007-070330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 940 PM CDT (840 PM MDT) TUE JUN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLISTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT (930 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...NORTHEASTERN BILLINGS COUNTY A 925 PM MDT THE BILLINGS COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED 3/4 INCH HAIL 7 MILES NORTH OF BELFIELD. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST BILLINGS COUNTY BY 845 PM MDT. HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. 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. SCARLETT/JB &
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
Local storm report, Jun 6, 8:35 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
935 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995
TIME LOCATION EVENT/DAMAGE
8:25 PM MDT 7 MILES NORTH OF 1/2 TO 3/4 INCH HAIL
BELFIELD REPORTED BY BILLINGS COUNTY
SHERIFF
SCARLETTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Golden Valley | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 9:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stark | 55 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.