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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 28, 1996Rolette County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1996, 4:59 PM CDT for Rolette County, North Dakota. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 1996, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Rolette County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 28, 5:05 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Rolette, ND

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 232 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	34 min
Jul 28, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	67 min
Jul 28, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce	59 min
Jul 28, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Sheridan	44 min
Jul 28, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean	20 min
Jul 28, 6:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Sheridan	39 min
Jul 28, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Wells	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.