Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 6:47 PM CDT for McKenzie 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
- Jun 14, 1996, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County McKenzie County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 244 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, 4:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
NDZ001-002-009-010-017>021-031>035-040>046-150000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 440 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 7PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 11PM CDT/ 10PM MDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 608 IS FOR NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. SOME CITIES IN THIS WATCH ARE...CROSBY...WILLISTON...WATFORD CITY...STANLEY ...WASHBURN...AND BEULAH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 614 IS FOR THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF NORTH DAKOTA. SOME CITIES IN THIS WATCH ARE...BISMARCK/MANDAN... LINTON...DICKINSON...BEACH...BOWMAN...AND HETTINGER. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA WILL BE RIPE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. KEEP IN MIND THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN ALSO PRODUCE TORNADOES. JP MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 10:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger, Stark | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 11:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger, Stark | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 11:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Hettinger | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton | 43 min |
| Jun 14, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Golden Valley, McKenzie | 65 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.