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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 8, 1999Mountrail County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1999, 4:00 PM CDT for Mountrail County, North Dakota. It was in force for 60 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 8, 1999, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1999, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Mountrail County, ND

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 4:20 PM CDTHail 1Stanley, 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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 8, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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 12:00Z on 1999-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1999-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 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
1557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
202 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.

NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 3:12 PM CDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:12 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
312 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1999

ACTIVE EVENING AGAIN AS TSRA ARE BEGIN TO FIRE ALONG/JUST AHEAD OF
CDFNT ALONG MT BDR AND AHEAD OF APPROACHING UPR LVL TROF OVR THE NRN
ROCKIES. VERY UNSTABLE AMS OVR THE CWA AND UVV'S INCREASING ALONG
STRONG MID LVL JET STREAK. XPCT TSRA TO INCREASE BCMG SVR ALONG THE
BNDRY THS AFTN IN THE WEST AND NORTH. SYS WL SLOWLY MOV EAST TNGT
WITH THE THREAT OF MCS DVLPG WHICH IS MAINLY A HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN
PRODUCER.

-SHRA WL CONT INTO WED BUT XPCT ACTIVITY TO END IN THE AFTN AS SYS
EJECTS INTO SRN CANADA. UPR PATTERN BECMS MORE ZONAL WITH CHANNELED
PVA LATE IN THE PD AND BRING A MORE SETTLED PATTERN TO THE ,CWA THRU
THE WEEKEND.

THE EXTENDED SHWS SAME PATTERN WITH MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS INTO THE
WEEKEND.

.BIS...NONE.
RGT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 3:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISLaMoure51 min
Jun 8, 2:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie67 min
Jun 8, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie60 min
Jun 8, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke, Ward40 min
Jun 8, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMcKenzie, Mountrail53 min
Jun 8, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMountrail40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.