Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 10, 1996Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1996, 8:14 PM CDT for Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 61 min. 5 reports 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: Jul 10, 1996, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 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 01:18 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
Jul 10, 8:30 PM CDT	Hail 1	Bismarck, ND
Jul 10, 8:33 PM CDT	Hail 1	Mandan, ND
Jul 10, 8:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Bismarck, ND
Jul 10, 8:40 PM CDT	Hail 1	Bismarck, ND
Jul 10, 8:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Mandan, 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, 1.2 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.

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: 902 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.9

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	65 min
Jul 10, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Emmons	50 min
Jul 10, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Oliver	50 min
Jul 10, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bottineau	48 min
Jul 10, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McIntosh	69 min
Jul 10, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	45 min
Jul 10, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	57 min
Jul 10, 10:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Emmons	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1996 Every 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.