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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 26, 20085 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2008, 11:46 PM MDT for 5 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 59 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 26, 2008, 11:46 PM MDT (05:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2008, 12:45 AM MDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 199 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 26, 8:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 1479 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 26, 1:13 PM MDT, 10 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 1:13 PM MDT, 10 hours 33 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 8:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	66 min
Jul 26, 9:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley, McKenzie	63 min
Jul 26, 10:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	63 min
Jul 27, 12:43 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope	62 min
Jul 27, 1:40 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux	65 min
Jul 27, 2:03 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Emmons	5 hr
Jul 27, 2:39 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Grant, Morton, Sioux	66 min
Jul 27, 2:44 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux	61 min
Jul 27, 3:33 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	57 min
Jul 27, 3:43 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	62 min
Jul 27, 4:04 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan	56 min
Jul 27, 4:32 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	58 min
Jul 27, 4:50 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.