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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2008, 9:25 PM MDT for Hettinger County, North Dakota. It was in force for 35 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 20, 2008, 9:25 PM MDT (03:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2008, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Hettinger County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:26 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 nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 20, 8:51 PM MDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 8:51 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 343 AM CDT SUN JUL 20 2008 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-210845- 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- 343 AM CDT SUN JUL 20 2008 /243 AM MDT SUN JUL 20 2008/ 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 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE UPDATES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. NH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 20, 5:46 PM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
646 PM CDT SUN JUL 20 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0621 PM HAIL 1 W BEACH 46.91N 104.03W
07/20/2008 E0.88 INCH GOLDEN VALLEY ND AMATEUR RADIO
NICKEL HAIL AND WIND GUST TO 58 MPH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN 0.40
INCHES
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LLPLocal storm report, Jul 20, 7:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger, Stark | 46 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.