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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 27, 2002Renville County, Ward County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2002, 5:19 PM CDT for Renville County, Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 41 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: Aug 27, 2002, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Renville County, ND, Ward County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 27, 5:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Kenmare, ND	Several crop fields wiped out by the hail.

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 nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 668 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	35 min
Aug 26, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	54 min
Aug 26, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	57 min
Aug 26, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	40 min
Aug 27, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	39 min
Aug 27, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	23 min
Aug 27, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	27 min
Aug 27, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Ward	25 min
Aug 27, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Ward	25 min
Aug 27, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	63 min
Aug 27, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	57 min
Aug 27, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.