Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1996, 8:18 PM MDT for Billings County, Golden Valley 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
- Jun 9, 1996, 8:18 PM MDT (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1996, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Billings County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 218 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:21 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 748 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, Jun 9, 6:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
NDZ001-002-009-010-017-018-031-032-040-043-100500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 735 PM CDT (635 PM MDT) SUN JUN 9 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF NORTH DAKOTA THIS EVENING... THE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF NORTH DAKOTA WILL BE RIPE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THE REST OF THE EVENING. SOME OF THESE WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 55 MPH. THESE FAVORABLE THUNDERSTORM CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT...11 MOUNTAIN. IN FACT...AT 730 PM CDT...630 MOUNTAIN...A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE SASKATCHEWAN BORDER 70 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLISTON... TO THE MONTANA BORDER 90 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DICKINSON. IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...A CLUSTER OF STRONG STORMS WAS IN BURKE COUNTY...NORTHEAST OF WILLISTON. IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...A STRONG STORM WAS JUST WEST OF MEDORA AND ANOTHEJR WAS JUST WEST OF MARMARTH...BILLINGS AND SLOPE COUNTIES. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING WILL BE NORTHEAST. THEY WILL BE MOVING SLOWLY AND COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. JP MARTIN
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 6:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
NDZ001-002-009-010-017-018-031-032-040-043-100500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 735 PM CDT (635 PM MDT) SUN JUN 9 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF NORTH DAKOTA THIS EVENING... THE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF NORTH DAKOTA WILL BE RIPE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THE REST OF THE EVENING. SOME OF THESE WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 55 MPH. THESE FAVORABLE THUNDERSTORM CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT...11 MOUNTAIN. IN FACT...AT 730 PM CDT...630 MOUNTAIN...A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE SASKATCHEWAN BORDER 70 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLISTON... TO THE MONTANA BORDER 90 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DICKINSON. IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...A CLUSTER OF STRONG STORMS WAS IN BURKE COUNTY...NORTHEAST OF WILLISTON. IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...A STRONG STORM WAS JUST WEST OF MEDORA AND ANOTHER WAS PJUST WEST OF MARMARTH...BILLINGS AND SLOPE COUNTIES. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING WILL BE NORTHEAST. THEY WILL BE MOVING SLOWLY AND COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. JP MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Mountrail | 64 min |
| Jun 9, 7:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 7:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Mountrail | 117 min |
| Jun 9, 9:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McKenzie, Mountrail | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 9:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie, Mountrail | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.