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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 26, 2010Bowman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2010, 10:17 AM MDT for Bowman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 44 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: Jun 26, 2010, 10:17 AM MDT (16:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2010, 11:01 AM MDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Bowman County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 224 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:17 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 2485 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.6

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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 Jun 26, 3:00 AM MDT, 7 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:00 AM MDT, 7 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 3:37 AM MDT, 6 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
437 AM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-270945-
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-
437 AM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010 /337 AM MDT SAT JUN 26 2010/

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

AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE TROUGH WILL MOVE
ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS TODAY AND TONIGHT BRINGING
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...AND HEAVY RAIN TO THE REGION. A
FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA FOR THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. IN ADDITION...HIGH
PRECIPITABLE WATER...GOOD SHEAR...AND HIGH CAPE WILL LEAD TO THE
POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING THURSDAY NIGHT AS YET
ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVES INTO THE REGION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 5:28 AM MDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:23 AM MDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:53 AM MDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 10:05 AM MDT, 12 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 25, 6:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mountrail	57 min
Jun 25, 6:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Renville	53 min
Jun 25, 7:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Renville, Ward	60 min
Jun 25, 7:27 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more	25 hr
Jun 25, 7:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, McIntosh	55 min
Jun 25, 7:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Renville, Ward	64 min
Jun 25, 7:57 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Burke, Renville, Ward	6 hr
Jun 25, 8:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, McIntosh	31 min
Jun 26, 4:42 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	48 min
Jun 26, 10:02 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Bottineau	71 min
Jun 26, 2:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	57 min
Jun 26, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Sioux	46 min
Jun 26, 3:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	3 hr
Jun 26, 3:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn	67 min
Jun 26, 4:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Grant	4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.