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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 23, 2005Emmons County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2005, 2:49 AM CDT for Emmons County, North Dakota. It was in force for 41 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 23, 2005, 2:49 AM CDT (07:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2005, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Emmons County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -362 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1303 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 22, 3:20 PM CDT, 11 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 3:20 PM CDT, 11 hours 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 5:07 AM CDT, 21 hours 42 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
507 AM CDT FRI JUL 22 2005

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-231006-
ADAMS-BILLINGS-BOTTINEAU-BOWMAN-BURKE-BURLEIGH-DICKEY-DIVIDE-DUNN-
EMMONS-FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-GRANT-HETTINGER-KIDDER-LA MOURE-LOGAN-
MCHENRY-MCINTOSH-MCKENZIE-MCLEAN-MERCER-MORTON-MOUNTRAIL-OLIVER-
PIERCE-RENVILLE-ROLETTE-SHERIDAN-SIOUX-SLOPE-STARK-STUTSMAN-WARD-
WELLS-WILLIAMS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WILLISTON...MINOT...JAMESTOWN...
DICKINSON...CROSBY...BOWMAN...BOTTINEAU...BISMARCK...MANDAN...
WATFORD CITY...WASHBURN...STANLEY...RUGBY...MOTT...MEDORA...LINTON...
HETTINGER...HARVEY...ELLENDALE...CARRINGTON...BEULAH...BELCOURT...
BEACH AND ASHLEY
507 AM CDT FRI JUL 22 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF EVENING AND OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORMS...SOME
SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

HEINERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	38 min
Jul 23, 3:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Emmons	27 min
Jul 23, 3:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McIntosh	44 min
Jul 23, 3:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Emmons	3 hr
Jul 23, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	31 min
Jul 23, 4:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	44 min
Jul 23, 5:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.