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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 29, 2006Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2006, 12:25 AM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 17 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 29, 2006, 12:25 AM CDT (05:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2006, 12:42 AM CDT
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 28, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 00:00Z on 2006-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 986 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2006-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 204 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
986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-522 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
394 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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 28, 3:48 PM CDT, 8 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 3:48 PM CDT, 8 hours 37 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 5:32 PM CDT, 6 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
532 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006

NDZ001>005-009>013-017-022-023-025-037-048-051-291015-
DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD-
MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-SHERIDAN-WELLS-FOSTER-STUTSMAN-LA MOURE-
DICKEY-
532 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

NDZ018>021-031>036-040>047-050-291015-
DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-
BURLEIGH-KIDDER-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-
LOGAN-MCINTOSH-
532 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 /432 PM MDT FRI JUL 28 2006/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR WITH HOT
TEMPERATURES...LOW HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

JF

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh, Oliver30 min
Jul 28, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons, Sioux36 min
Jul 28, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh, Kidder30 min
Jul 29, 4:31 AM CDTRed Flag WarningBISAdams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dunn, Emmons and 13 more16 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.