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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 3, 2010Burke County, Divide County, Williams County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2010, 4:44 AM CDT for Burke County, Divide County, Williams County, North Dakota. It was in force for 61 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: Jul 3, 2010, 4:44 AM CDT (09:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2010, 5:45 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Burke County, ND, Divide County, ND, Williams County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 279 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: 2663 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1837 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 273 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 17.1

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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 Jul 3, 3:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 3:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 4:18 AM CDT, 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 3, 2:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 2:14 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 2:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 2:36 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 2:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 3:53 AM CDT, 51 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
Jul 2, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	42 min
Jul 2, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	56 min
Jul 2, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	68 min
Jul 3, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Divide, Williams	59 min
Jul 3, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Mountrail, Renville, Ward	61 min
Jul 3, 1:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Bottineau, Burke, Mountrail, Renville, Ward	111 min
Jul 3, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	56 min
Jul 3, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Renville	60 min
Jul 3, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	50 min
Jul 3, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Williams	29 min
Jul 3, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	63 min
Jul 3, 3:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Divide, Williams	58 min
Jul 3, 3:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	40 min
Jul 3, 3:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	62 min
Jul 3, 3:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Renville	67 min
Jul 3, 4:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail, Williams	1 min
Jul 3, 4:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail, Williams	59 min
Jul 3, 4:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Renville	59 min
Jul 3, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Renville, Ward	57 min
Jul 3, 5:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Burke, Divide, Mountrail, Williams	87 min

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.