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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 20, 1996Billings County, Golden Valley County, McKenzie County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1996, 1:38 AM MDT for Billings County, Golden Valley County, McKenzie County, North Dakota. It was in force for 67 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: Jul 20, 1996, 1:38 AM MDT (07:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 1996, 2:45 AM MDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties Billings County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, McKenzie County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -334 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 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.

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, Jul 19, 8:38 PM MDT, 5 hours before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 8:52 PM MDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 6:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	68 min
Jul 19, 11:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Mountrail	64 min
Jul 20, 12:10 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	65 min
Jul 20, 2:22 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	38 min
Jul 20, 3:27 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Pierce	33 min
Jul 20, 3:27 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.