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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 18, 1997Stark County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1997, 1:05 AM MDT for Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 55 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 18, 1997, 1:05 AM MDT (07:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 1997, 2:00 AM MDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:06 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 17, 11:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 1566 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 180706 RRA
SVRBIS
NDC089-180800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
205 AM CDT (105 AM MDT) FRI JUL 18 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM CDT (200 AM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...STARK COUNTY
 
AT 1 AM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
DICKINSON. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE
STORM INCLUDE SOUTH HEART...DICKINSON...GLADSTONE...TAYLOR...AND
RICHARDTON.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
VINING/VAN ESS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 11:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	56 min
Jul 17, 11:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Golden Valley	52 min
Jul 17, 11:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings	60 min
Jul 18, 12:24 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	51 min
Jul 18, 1:28 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	62 min
Jul 18, 2:02 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Stark	58 min
Jul 18, 3:20 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.