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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 29, 1997McKenzie County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1997, 7:33 PM CDT for McKenzie County, North Dakota. It was in force for 57 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 29, 1997, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County McKenzie County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 230 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 1997-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 419 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KISN 300033 RRA
SVRISN
NDC053-300130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
733 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLISTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...NORTHERN MCKENZIE COUNTY
 
AT 730 PM CDT/630 MDT WILLISTON RADAR INDICATED THAT SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO NORTHERN MCKENZIE COUNTY. SO FAR THESE
STORMS ARE OVER MAINLY OPEN COUNTRY. WITH THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE
STORMS, FLOODING COULD OCCUR. PLEASE USE CAUTION.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILD^ING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
CHAPMAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie62 min
Jun 29, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie69 min
Jun 30, 2:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBowman42 min
Jun 30, 3:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISAdams57 min
Jun 30, 4:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Hettinger, Sioux58 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.