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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Bismarck, ND

September 5, 1996McHenry County, Pierce County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 1996, 12:18 AM CDT for McHenry County, Pierce County, North Dakota. It was in force for 57 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 5, 1996, 12:18 AM CDT (05:18 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 1996, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties McHenry County, ND, Pierce County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 00:00Z on 1996-09-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2037 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 00:00Z on 1996-09-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 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
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

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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, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie55 min
Sep 4, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie46 min
Sep 4, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie65 min
Sep 4, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBillings, Golden Valley68 min
Sep 4, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcKenzie26 min
Sep 4, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningBISDunn, Mountrail60 min
Sep 4, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie61 min
Sep 4, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcLean, Mercer69 min
Sep 4, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDunn69 min
Sep 4, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie65 min
Sep 4, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail60 min
Sep 4, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcHenry58 min
Sep 4, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWard58 min
Sep 4, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie62 min
Sep 4, 11:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWilliams56 min
Sep 4, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWard42 min
Sep 5, 12:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWilliams55 min
Sep 5, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke60 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.