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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 26, 1995Bowman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 10:27 PM MDT for Bowman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1995, 10:27 PM MDT (04:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1995, 11:15 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Bowman County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 224 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:28 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 1995-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2335 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 1995-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 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
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 270430 RRA
SVRBIS
NDC011-270515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1127 PM CDT (1027 PM MDT) WED JUL 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT (1115 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...EASTERN BOWMAN COUNTY
 
AT 1025 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES
SOUTH OF BOWMAN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE 2 TO 3
MILES SOUTH OF BOMAN...AND NEAR THE TOWNS OF GASCOYNE AND SCRANTON BY
1050 TO 11 PM MDT.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM 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, 2 hours 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, 2 hours 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
Local storm report, Jul 26, 10:10 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  WILLISTON ND
1110 PM CDT WED JUL 26 1995

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

1107 PM    WILLISTON                 ND   63 MPH WIND GUST
07/26/95   WILLIAMS                       REPORTED AT SLOULIN FIELD
                                          NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 9:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStark63 min
Jul 26, 9:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie, Williams60 min
Jul 26, 10:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie, Williams60 min
Jul 26, 11:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke, Mountrail66 min
Jul 26, 11:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke, Divide42 min
Jul 27, 1:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISSioux62 min
Jul 27, 2:01 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBenson59 min
Jul 27, 2:01 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWells39 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.