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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 3, 1999Burleigh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1999, 7:00 AM CDT for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 45 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, 7:00 AM CDT (12:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1999, 7:45 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Burleigh County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 3, 7:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 29 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 1999-07-03Temperature 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 1999-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 163 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
563 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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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, 3:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISSlope49 min
Jul 3, 3:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISLogan62 min
Jul 3, 3:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISHettinger65 min
Jul 3, 4:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant42 min
Jul 3, 5:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton62 min
Jul 3, 6:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISKidder52 min
Jul 3, 6:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton62 min
Jul 3, 6:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStutsman56 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.