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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Bismarck, ND

September 4, 1996Renville County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 1996, 2:33 PM CDT for Renville County, North Dakota. It was in force for 42 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
Sep 4, 1996, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 1996, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Renville County, ND

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 4, 3:06 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 58Loraine, 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1996-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 108 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1996-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 4, 7:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton48 min
Sep 4, 9:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean30 min
Sep 4, 10:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWard63 min
Sep 4, 12:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau, Renville62 min
Sep 4, 2:18 PM CDTTornado WarningBISBurke27 min
Sep 4, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau66 min
Sep 4, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie, Williams65 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.