Alert archive / North Dakota / Snow Advisories in 2008
Snow Advisory 5, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this snow advisory at Mar 20, 2008, 2:52 PM CDT for 5 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Mar 20, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 2008, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 20, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2008, 3:53 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
Counties Dickey County, ND, Emmons County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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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.