Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1996, 8:30 PM MDT for Adams County, Bowman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 45 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
- May 16, 1996, 8:30 PM MDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1996, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, ND, Bowman County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 9:00 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Haynes, 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 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
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, May 16, 4:01 PM MDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 16, 5:07 PM MDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
NDZ047-048-050-051-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 605 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA HAS BEEN CANCELED... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR LOGAN...MCINTOSH...LA MOURE...AND DICKEY COUNTIES IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS OVER FOR THE EVENING. ...HOWEVER..THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE AND THERE IS A THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN LATER TONIGHT. THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 9 PM FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA INCLUDING CASS...RANSOM...SARGENT...AND RICHLAND. VAN ESS
Special weather statement, May 16, 6:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
NDZ039-047>053-170100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 700 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA HAS BEEN CANCELED. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA AND NO LONGER ARE A THREAT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP AGAIN LATER TONIGHT...AND A FEW MIGHT BE SEVERE. VAN ESS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 9:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams | 49 min |
| May 16, 9:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Sioux | 69 min |
| May 16, 10:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 69 min |
| May 16, 10:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Sioux | 56 min |
| May 16, 10:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton | 48 min |
| May 16, 11:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh | 69 min |
| May 16, 11:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey, LaMoure | 68 min |
| May 16, 11:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 68 min |
| May 16, 11:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 50 min |
| May 17, 12:25 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | LaMoure, Stutsman | 20 min |
| May 17, 12:25 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey | 20 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.