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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Bismarck, ND

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

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 11:30 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, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1995, 12:30 AM 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, 4.5 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-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: 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KISN 270430 RRA
SVRISN
NDC105-053-270530-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
1130 PM CDT WED JUL 26 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      EASTERN WILLIAMS...

   IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      NORTHEAST MCKENZIE...THE CITY OF WATFORD CITY...

AT 1105 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED WIND GUSTS TO 63 MPH IN
WILLISTON.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

 KENNEDY

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, 2 hours 30 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, 2 hours 29 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, 11:10 PM CDT, 20 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	63 min
Jul 26, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	60 min
Jul 26, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	48 min
Jul 27, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Mountrail	66 min
Jul 27, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Divide	42 min
Jul 27, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sioux	62 min
Jul 27, 3:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Benson	59 min
Jul 27, 3:01 AM CDT	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.