Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 30, 1996Mercer County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1996, 6:02 PM MDT for Mercer County, North Dakota. It was in force for 58 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 30, 1996, 6:02 PM MDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1996, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Mercer County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 30, 6:15 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52Golden Vly, 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 1996-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 1996-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail57 min
Jun 30, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMercer, Oliver43 min
Jun 30, 7:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail57 min
Jun 30, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISOliver45 min
Jun 30, 8:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh, Morton52 min
Jun 30, 8:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Morton, Stark57 min
Jun 30, 8:58 PM MDTTornado WarningBISGrant, Morton32 min
Jun 30, 9:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh, Morton42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.