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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 4, 1996Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 3:43 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 62 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: Aug 4, 1996, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1996, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Stutsman County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 4, 4:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Buchanan, 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 235 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: 1878 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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, Aug 4, 10:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 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
Aug 3, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	66 min
Aug 3, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings	33 min
Aug 3, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Slope	40 min
Aug 3, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	60 min
Aug 3, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	52 min
Aug 3, 11:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Emmons	52 min
Aug 3, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	48 min
Aug 3, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder	63 min
Aug 4, 12:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	42 min
Aug 4, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster	59 min
Aug 4, 1:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	72 min
Aug 4, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	56 min
Aug 4, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	42 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.