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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 26, 1995Stark County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 9:27 PM MDT for Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 1995, 9:27 PM MDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1995, 10:30 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:30 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 2335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 270330 RRA
SVRBIS
NDC089-270430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1027 PM CDT (927 PM MDT) WED JUL 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT (1030 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...WESTERN STARK COUNTY
 
AT 925 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 23 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF DICKINSON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE
NEAR THE DICKINSON AREA BETWEEN 940 AND 950 MDT.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN 0CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
 
ABELING

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, Jul 26, 8:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  WILLISTON ND
900 PM CDT WED JUL 26 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0728 PM    WILLISTON                 ND   HAIL
07/26/95   WILLIAMS                       1/2 INCH HAIL AT
                                          WILLISTON AIRPORT

0744 PM    WILLISTON                 ND   50  MPH WIND GUST
07/27/95   WILLIAMS                       20 E WILLISTON

KENNEDY

Local storm report, Jul 26, 8:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  WILLISTON ND
900 PM CDT WED JUL 26 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0728 PM    WILLISTON                 ND   HAIL
07/26/95   WILLIAMS                       1/2 INCH HAIL AT
                                          WILLISTON AIRPORT

0744 PM    WILLISTON                 ND   50  MPH WIND GUST
07/27/95   WILLIAMS                       20 E WILLISTON

KENNEDY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 9:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	60 min
Jul 26, 10:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	48 min
Jul 26, 10:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	60 min
Jul 26, 11:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Mountrail	66 min
Jul 26, 11:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Divide	42 min
Jul 27, 1:28 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sioux	62 min
Jul 27, 2:01 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Benson	59 min
Jul 27, 2:01 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Wells	39 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.