Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 10:54 PM CDT for Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 51 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, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1996, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burleigh County, ND, Morton County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 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
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, 7:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
NDZ001-002-009-010-017>021-031>035-040>046-150400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 730 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 11PM CDT/10PM MDT... A FEW COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THE WATCH HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR OTHER COUNTIES. DIVIDE...BURKE...AND WILLIAMS COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER IN THE WATCH. THIS MEANS CROSBY...BOWBELLS AND WILLISTON ARE NO LONGER IN THE WATCH. BASICALLY...EVERYPLACE WEST AND SOUTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER...AND MOUNTRAIL...MCLEAN...BURLEIGH...AND EMMONS COUNTIES...ARE IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11PM CDT/10PM MDT. SOME CITIES STILL IN THE WATCH ARE...WATFORD CITY...STANLEY...WASHBURN ...LINTON...BISMARCK/MANDAN...DICKINSON...BEACH...AND BOWMAN. JP MARTIN
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 8:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
NDZ010-017>021-031>035-040>046-150400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 810 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR MOST OF WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 11PM CDT/10PM MDT... ...THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINS... SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH ARE...WATFORD CITY...STANLEY...WASHBURN... LINTON...BISMARCK/MANDAN...DICKINSON...BEACH...AND BOWMAN. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA REMAINS RIPE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINS... POSSIBLY AN INCH OR TWO IN SHORT PERIODS OF TIME. THIS WILL PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. IF YOU COME TO A FLOODED ROAD...DO NOT DRIVE INTO THE WATER. IN FACT...AT 8 PM CDT...7 MOUNTAIN...A PERSON IN THE TOWN OF REEDER... ADAMS COUNTY...REPORTED THAT VISIBILITY IN HIS TOWN WAS NEAR ZERO DUE TO DOWZNPOURS OF RAIN. JP MARTIN
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 8:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
NDZ043-044-150145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 818 PM CDT (718 PM MDT) FRI JUN 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN BOWMAN AND WESTERN ADAMS COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... AT 730 PM MDT...NO SEVERE REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AND DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINS MAINLY VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 715 MDT. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VpERY HEAVY RAIN. BE CAUTIONS ESPECIALLY AFTER DARK AS RISING WATERS MAY BE HARD TO SEE. ABELING
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 8:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
NDZ033-150230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 826 PM CDT (726 PM MDT) FRI JUN 14 1996 AT 720 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN STARK COUNTY...14 MILES WEST OF DICKINSON OR JUST SOUTHEAST OF BELFIELD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH AND DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF 2 TO 2 AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR. SOME LOCAL FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE AS THIS STORM MOVES NEAR THE TOWN OF SOUTH HEART BY 745 MDT. ABELING
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 8:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
NDZ033-150230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 826 PM CDT (726 PM MDT) FRI JUN 14 1996 AT 720 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN STARK COUNTY...14 MILES WEST OF DICKINSON OR JUST SOUTHEAST OF BELFIELD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH AND DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF 2 TO 2 AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR. SOME LOCAL FLASH &FLOODING IS POSSIBLE AS THIS STORM MOVES NEAR THE TOWN OF SOUTH HEART BY 745 MDT. ABELING
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 9:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Bowman | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Dunn, McKenzie | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger | 69 min |
| Jun 14, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stark | 68 min |
| Jun 14, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 46 min |
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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.