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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 14, 1996Adams County, Bowman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 6:13 PM MDT for Adams County, Bowman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 62 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: Jun 14, 1996, 6:13 PM MDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1996, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 62 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 00:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6:30 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Reeder, 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, 0.2 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1543 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 295 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 9.4

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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, 3:45 PM MDT, 2 hours 28 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, 6:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, McKenzie	57 min
Jun 14, 7:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	69 min
Jun 14, 7:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	68 min
Jun 14, 8:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	46 min
Jun 14, 9:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	51 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.