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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 17, 1996Burleigh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1996, 12:40 AM CDT for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1996, 12:40 AM CDT (05:40 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1996, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Burleigh County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 29 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: 317 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 422 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 170541
SVRBIS
NDC015-170630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1240 AM CDT FRI MAY 17 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN BURLEIGH COUNTY
 
AT 1235 AM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH IN SOUTHERN
BURLEIGH COUNTY.
 
THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED WINDS OF 79 MPH IN
BISMARCK WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN SOUTHERN BURLEIGH
COUNTY...TO THE EAST OF BISMARCK.
 
THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE LINCOLN...MENOKEN AND STERLING.
BISMARCK/MANDAN IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTHERN BURLEIGH COUNTY...EAST OF BISMARCK...EXPECT
"WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
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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

Special weather statement, May 16, 7:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before

NDZ039-047>053-170100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
700 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1996

...TORNADO WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...

THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA HAS BEEN CANCELED. THE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA AND NO LONGER ARE A THREAT.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP AGAIN LATER TONIGHT...AND A FEW MIGHT
BE SEVERE.

VAN ESS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman	45 min
May 16, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams	49 min
May 16, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Sioux	69 min
May 16, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	69 min
May 16, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	56 min
May 16, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	48 min
May 17, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh	69 min
May 17, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	68 min
May 17, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	68 min
May 17, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Stutsman	20 min
May 17, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	20 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.