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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 3, 1999Grant County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1999, 3:33 AM MDT for Grant County, North Dakota. It was in force for 42 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 3, 1999, 3:33 AM MDT (09:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1999, 4:15 AM MDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Grant County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 272 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1999-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 890 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1999-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 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
890 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-280 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
962 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
259 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 2:16 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISSlope49 min
Jul 3, 2:38 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISLogan62 min
Jul 3, 2:55 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISHettinger65 min
Jul 3, 4:13 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton62 min
Jul 3, 5:08 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISKidder52 min
Jul 3, 5:13 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton62 min
Jul 3, 5:34 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStutsman56 min
Jul 3, 6:00 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.