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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 16, 201027 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this high wind watch at Jun 16, 2010, 3:55 AM MDT for 27 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Jun 17, 2010, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2010, 3:55 AM MDT (09:55 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 17, 2010, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jun 17, 2010, 3:55 AM MDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

All 27 counties

Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:01 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 365 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: 270 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Jun 16, 3:13 AM MDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:13 AM MDT, 42 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
Jun 16, 2:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	BIS	Billings, Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley and 8 more	30 hr
Jun 16, 3:01 PM MDT	High Wind Warning	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Dunn and 17 more	51 hr
Jun 16, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Slope	65 min

Nearby

High Wind Watches in North Dakota, 2010 Every high wind watch in 2010

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.