Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 9:10 AM MDT for Hettinger County, Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 14, 1996, 9:10 AM MDT (15:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1996, 10:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hettinger County, ND, Stark County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:18 AM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Lefor, ND | |
| Jun 14, 9:20 AM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Lefor, 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
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 352 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
- 1825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1343 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 14, 6:25 AM MDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:33 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 10:03 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger, Stark | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 10:49 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Hettinger | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 11:32 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton | 43 min |
| Jun 14, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Golden Valley, McKenzie | 65 min |
| Jun 14, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 58 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.