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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 26, 1995McKenzie County, Williams County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 10:45 PM CDT for McKenzie County, Williams County, North Dakota. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1995, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1995, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties McKenzie County, ND, Williams County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 236 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 1995-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 98 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 1995-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 121 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
98 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-210 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, 9:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 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, 9:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStark63 min
Jul 26, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBowman48 min
Jul 26, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie, Williams60 min
Jul 27, 12:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke, Mountrail66 min
Jul 27, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke, Divide42 min
Jul 27, 2:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISSioux62 min
Jul 27, 3:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBenson59 min
Jul 27, 3:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWells39 min

Nearby

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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.