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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Bismarck, ND

September 16, 20066 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this high wind watch at Sep 16, 2006, 4:55 AM CDT for 6 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Sep 17, 2006, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 16, 2006, 4:55 AM CDT (09:55 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 17, 2006, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Sep 16, 2006, 3:37 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Burke County, ND, Divide County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Renville County, ND, Williams County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 485 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 2006-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 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 2006-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
181 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 high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Sep 16, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 4:55 AM CDTHigh Wind WarningBISAdams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh, Divide and 13 more41 hr
Sep 16, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDickey47 min
Sep 16, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStutsman26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.