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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 27, 1995Benson County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 3:01 AM CDT for Benson County, North Dakota. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 1995, 3:01 AM CDT (08:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1995, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Benson County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 
WUUS1 KBIS 270801 RRA
SVRBIS
NDC103-005-270900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
301 AM CDT THU JUL 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...NORTHERN WELLS COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN BENSON COUNTY
 
AT 257 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 75 MILES
NORTHEAST OF BISMARCK OR NEAR HARVEY. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE
HARVEY, WELLSBURG, HAMBURG AND MADDOCK. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS TO
THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
 
JENSEN

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, 3 hours 1 minute 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

SCARLETT

Local storm report, Jul 27, 12:01 AM CDT, 3 hours 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

SCARLETT

Local storm report, Jul 27, 12:04 AM CDT, 2 hours 57 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

SCARLETT

Local storm report, Jul 27, 12:54 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 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
                                          SHERIFF

Local storm report, Jul 27, 12:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 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
                                          SHERIFF

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 1:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 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, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sioux	62 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.