Alert archive / North Dakota / Wind Advisories in 2009
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this wind advisory at Sep 21, 2009, 7:44 AM MDT for 8 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 2009, 7:44 AM MDT (13:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2009, 2:48 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
Counties Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:44 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 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KBIS 211344 NPWBIS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 844 AM CDT MON SEP 21 2009 ...STRONG WINDS ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST TODAY... .STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA TODAY. THE STRONG WINDS DEVELOPED AFTER A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. THE GUSTY WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. NDZ031>033-040>045-212145- /O.NEW.KBIS.WI.Y.0013.090921T1344Z-090922T0000Z/ GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS- SIOUX- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BEACH...MEDORA...DICKINSON...MARMARTH... MOTT...ELGIN...BOWMAN...HETTINGER...FORT YATES 844 AM CDT MON SEP 21 2009 /744 AM MDT MON SEP 21 2009/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT /6 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT /6 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA TODAY...DIMINISHING SLOWLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ WAA
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KBIS 212048 NPWBIS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 348 PM CDT MON SEP 21 2009 ...WINDS DIMINISHING THEN SKIES CLEARING WITH FROST POSSIBLE WEST... .HIGH PRESSURE OVER MONTANA WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST TONIGHT. THIS WILL ALLOW THE STRONG WINDS OVER THE SOUTHWEST TO DIMINISH AND ALLOW ALLOW SKIES TO CLEAR ACROSS THE WEST. TEMPERATURES LATE TONIGHT WILL FALL INTO THE MID TO UPPER 30S ACROSS THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE STATE. SOME FROST IS POSSIBLE IN LOW LYING AND SHELTERED AREAS. NDZ031>033-040-041-043-044-220500- /O.CAN.KBIS.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-090922T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KBIS.FR.Y.0007.090922T0800Z-090922T1400Z/ GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-SLOPE-HETTINGER-BOWMAN-ADAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BEACH...MEDORA...DICKINSON...MARMARTH... MOTT...BOWMAN...HETTINGER 248 PM MDT MON SEP 21 2009 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM MDT TUESDAY... ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM MDT TUESDAY. THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH BY EVENING. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. LATER TONIGHT SKIES WILL CLEAR AND TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE MID 30S. SOME FROST IS LIKELY IN LOW LYING AND SHELTERED AREAS. THOSE WISHING TO PROTECT TENDER PLANTS SHOULD TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ NDZ042-045-212200- /O.CAN.KBIS.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-090922T0000Z/ GRANT-SIOUX- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ELGIN...FORT YATES 348 PM CDT MON SEP 21 2009 /248 PM MDT MON SEP 21 2009/ ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON. THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ NDZ001-002-009-010-017-018-220500- /O.NEW.KBIS.FR.Y.0007.090922T0800Z-090922T1400Z/ DIVIDE-BURKE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-MCKENZIE-DUNN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROSBY...BOWBELLS...WILLISTON... NEW TOWN...WATFORD CITY...KILLDEER 348 PM CDT MON SEP 21 2009 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM CDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM CDT TUESDAY. LATER TONIGHT SKIES WILL CLEAR AND TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE MID 30S. SOME FROST IS LIKELY IN LOW LYING AND SHELTERED AREAS. THOSE WISHING TO PROTECT TENDER PLANTS SHOULD TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ WAA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2:48 PM MDT | Frost Advisory | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Divide, Dunn and 7 more | 17 hr |
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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.