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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 28, 1996Pierce County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1996, 8:02 PM CDT for Pierce County, North Dakota. It was in force for 28 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 28, 1996, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Pierce County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 1996-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1931 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 1996-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1931 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISPierce, Rolette56 min
Jun 28, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISKidder, Stutsman63 min
Jun 28, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISSioux66 min
Jun 28, 9:48 PM CDTTornado WarningBISSioux42 min
Jun 28, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISFoster35 min
Jun 28, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.