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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 15, 2006Foster County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2006, 3:02 AM CDT for Foster County, North Dakota. It was in force for 28 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
Jun 15, 2006, 3:02 AM CDT (08:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2006, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Foster County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:05 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 2006-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1160 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 2006-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 170 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
1160 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-372 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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 Jun 15, 3:00 AM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:00 AM CDT, 2 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 4:48 AM CDT, 22 hours 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
448 AM CDT WED JUN 14 2006

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-151000-
DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD-
MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS-
FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-
STUTSMAN-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN-
LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY-
448 AM CDT WED JUN 14 2006 /348 AM MDT WED JUN 14 2006/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN MONTANA AND
WYOMING TODAY...WILL SLIDE EAST ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS
EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. AS A RESULT...STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE FORECAST
AREA...WITH THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

AS THE LOW PRESSURE TROUGH MOVES EAST THURSDAY MORNING AND
AFTERNOON...THERE REMAINS A CHANCE FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS
ACROSS THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE FORECAST AREA INTO EARLY THURSDAY
EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING AND
TONIGHT...THEN POSSIBLE FOR THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

NH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 9:09 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
909 PM CDT WED JUN 14 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0906 PM     HAIL             7 SE BEACH              46.84N 103.90W
06/14/2006  E1.00 INCH       GOLDEN VALLEY      ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

SWICHE
Local storm report, Jun 14, 9:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
921 PM CDT WED JUN 14 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0910 PM     HAIL             6 E BEACH               46.91N 103.88W
06/14/2006  E1.75 INCH       GOLDEN VALLEY      ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

SWICHE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGolden Valley53 min
Jun 14, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBowman, Slope67 min
Jun 14, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningBISGolden Valley28 min
Jun 14, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGolden Valley60 min
Jun 14, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISSlope33 min
Jun 14, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBillings67 min
Jun 15, 12:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGolden Valley36 min
Jun 15, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie48 min
Jun 15, 1:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStutsman42 min

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.