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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 17, 1996LaMoure County, Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1996, 1:25 AM CDT for LaMoure County, Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 20 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: May 17, 1996, 1:25 AM CDT (06:25 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1996, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties LaMoure County, ND, Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:28 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 17, 1:40 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Jamestown, 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 00:00Z, 6.4 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.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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

Special weather statement, May 17, 12:47 AM CDT, 38 minutes before

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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, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.