Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 2:28 AM CDT for Sioux County, North Dakota. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 2:28 AM CDT (07:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1995, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sioux County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 27, 12:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR DATE 1135 PM...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
1200 AM CDT THU JUL 27 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1115 PM WILLISTON ND 63 MPH WIND GUSTS
07/26/95 WILLIAMS TREES...POWER LINES DOWN.
ROOFING BLOWN OFF
BUILDINGS
1135 PM WATFORD CITY ND 66 MPH WIND GUST
07/26/95 MCKENZIE REPORTED BY CNTY SHERIFF
DEPT
SCARLETTLocal storm report, Jul 27, 12:01 AM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
1200 AM CDT THU JUL 27 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1115 PM WILLISTON ND 63 MPH WIND GUSTS
07/26/95 WILLIAMS TREES...POWER LINES DOWN.
ROOFING BLOWN OFF
BUILDINGS
1135 PM WATFORD CITY ND 66 MPH WIND GUST
07/27/95 MCKENZIE REPORTED BY CNTY SHERIFF
DEPT
SCARLETTLocal storm report, Jul 27, 12:04 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR DATE 1135 PM...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
1200 AM CDT THU JUL 27 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1115 PM WILLISTON ND 63 MPH WIND GUSTS
07/26/95 WILLIAMS TREES...POWER LINES DOWN.
ROOFING BLOWN OFF
BUILDINGS
1135 PM WATFORD CITY ND 66 MPH WIND GUST
07/26/95 MCKENZIE REPORTED BY CNTY SHERIFF
DEPT
SCARLETTLocal storm report, Jul 27, 12:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
1254 AM CDT THU JUL 27 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1245 PM PARSHALL ND 55 MPH WIND GUST
07/27/95 MOUNTRAIL REPORTED BY WEATHER
MODIFICATION
METEOROLOGISTS
1250 PM STANLEY ND 60 MPH WIND GUST
07/27/95 MOUNTRAIL WIND 50 MPH GUSTING TO 60
MPH...ESTIMATED BY CNTY
SHERIFFLocal storm report, Jul 27, 12:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
1254 AM CDT THU JUL 27 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1245 PM PARSHALL ND 55 MPH WIND GUST
07/27/95 MOUNTRAIL REPORTED BY WEATHER
MODIFICATION
METEOROLOGISTS
1250 PM STANLEY~ ND 60 MPH WIND GUST
07/27/95 MOUNTRAIL WIND 50 MPH GUSTING TO 60
MPH...ESTIMATED BY CNTY
SHERIFFSpecial weather statement, Jul 27, 1:41 AM CDT, 47 minutes before
NDZ001-009-017-018-031>033-041-043-044-270715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 140 AM CDT (1240 AM MDT) THU JUL 27 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA.. THE TORNADO WATCH ISSUED EARLIER TONIGHT IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH DAKOTA... DIVIDE...WILLIAMS...MCKENZIE...BILLINGS...GOLDEN VALLEY...SLOPE...BOWMAN...ADAMS...HETTINGER...STARK...DUNN. ...THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 4 AM CDT... RR
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 26, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie, Williams | 60 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, 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
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.