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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 423, NWS Bismarck, ND

September 6, 2008Bottineau County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 2008, 5:16 PM CDT for Bottineau County, North Dakota. It was in force for 29 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: Sep 6, 2008, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 2008, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Bottineau County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1171 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 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 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 Sep 6, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 6, 5:14 AM CDT, 12 hours 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
514 AM CDT SAT SEP 6 2008

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-071015-
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-
514 AM CDT SAT SEP 6 2008 /414 AM MDT SAT SEP 6 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

SCATTERED SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT...WITH A CHANCE
OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE
WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. A
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

JV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 6, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Ward	29 min
Sep 6, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sheridan	20 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.