Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 1996, 10:02 PM CDT for McHenry County, North Dakota. It was in force for 58 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
- Sep 4, 1996, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County McHenry County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2037 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
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, Sep 4, 4:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
NDZ004-042145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 415 PM CDT WED SEP 4 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BOTTINEAU COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 415 PM CDT... AT 410 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR BOTTINEAU COUNTY HAS SINCE WEAKENED AND IS MOVING INTO CANADA. THE STORM IS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF BOTTINEAU AND IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. HINTZ
Local storm report, Sep 4, 4:19 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
418 PM CDT WED SEP 04 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
115 PM E. DIVIDE AND W. BURKE ND PEA TO 3/4 INCH HAIL.
130 PM E. DIVIDE POSSIBLE SMALL TORNADO 3 MILES
WEST AND 1 MILE SOUTH OF
NOONAN...ND.
145 PM W. BURKE PEA TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
WIGHTMANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 55 min |
| Sep 4, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 46 min |
| Sep 4, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 65 min |
| Sep 4, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley | 68 min |
| Sep 4, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 26 min |
| Sep 4, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Dunn, Mountrail | 60 min |
| Sep 4, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 61 min |
| Sep 4, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McLean, Mercer | 69 min |
| Sep 4, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn | 69 min |
| Sep 4, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 65 min |
| Sep 4, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 60 min |
| Sep 4, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 58 min |
| Sep 4, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 62 min |
| Sep 4, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Williams | 56 min |
| Sep 4, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 42 min |
| Sep 5, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Pierce | 57 min |
| Sep 5, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Williams | 55 min |
| Sep 5, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.