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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 24, 2010Dickey County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2010, 2:05 AM CDT for Dickey County, North Dakota. It was in force for 55 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: May 24, 2010, 2:05 AM CDT (07:05 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2010, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Dickey County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:05 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 23, 3:46 PM CDT, 10 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:46 PM CDT, 10 hours 19 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
May 24, 2:47 AM CDT	High Wind Watch	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 20 more	23 hr
May 24, 2:47 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Divide and 10 more	23 hr
May 24, 10:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Kidder, Stutsman, Wells	43 min
May 24, 12:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Stutsman	56 min
May 24, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure, Stutsman	52 min
May 24, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	12 min
May 24, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Stutsman	48 min
May 24, 2:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh	26 min
May 24, 2:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Logan	23 min
May 24, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams	38 min
May 24, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Adams	25 min
May 24, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	50 min
May 24, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	30 min
May 24, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams	57 min
May 24, 5:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Stutsman	4 hr
May 24, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Stark	36 min
May 24, 5:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	3 hr
May 24, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman	54 min
May 24, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger	53 min
May 24, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Stutsman	51 min
May 24, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Grant, Hettinger, Mercer, Morton, Oliver and 2 more	57 min
May 24, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton, Stark	15 min
May 24, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	27 min

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.