Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 9:05 PM MDT for Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1995, 9:05 PM MDT (03:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1995, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 844 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBIS 070307 RRA SVRBIS NDC089-070400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTION SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1005 PM CDT (905 PM MDT) TUE JUN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT (1000 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...WESTERN STARK COUNTY AT 9 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DICKINSON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM WILL APPROACH DICKINSON BY 915 TO 930 PM MDT. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF 3/4 INCH HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IN AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. ABELING WWUS35KAVL /7
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, Jun 6, 8:35 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
935 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995
TIME LOCATION EVENT/DAMAGE
8:25 PM MDT 7 MILES NORTH OF 1/2 TO 3/4 INCH HAIL
BELFIELD REPORTED BY BILLINGS COUNTY
SHERIFF
SCARLETTLocal storm report, Jun 6, 9:00 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR LOCATION....
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
1000 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995
TIME LOCATION EVENT/DAMAGE
8:25 PM MDT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF 1/2 TO 3/4 INCH HAIL
BELFIELD REPORTED BY COUNTY
SHERIFF (IN BILLINGS CNTY)
SCARLETTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Golden Valley | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 8:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings | 50 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.