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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 332, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 30, 2010Burleigh County, McLean County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2010, 6:02 PM CDT for Burleigh County, McLean County, North Dakota. It was in force for 28 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 30, 2010, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2010, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Burleigh County, ND, McLean County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 328 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: 49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -253 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 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 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 30, 3:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 3:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 4:41 AM CDT, 13 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 30, 3:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 3:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 4:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 5:49 PM CDT, 13 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 29, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	24 min
Jul 29, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	67 min
Jul 29, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	51 min
Jul 29, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	62 min
Jul 29, 8:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	2 hr
Jul 29, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	54 min
Jul 29, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Mountrail, Williams	67 min
Jul 29, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Divide, Williams	59 min
Jul 29, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, McKenzie, Mountrail	54 min
Jul 29, 8:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Mountrail, Williams	3 hr
Jul 29, 9:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Burke, Divide, Mountrail, Williams	100 min
Jul 29, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Stark	45 min
Jul 29, 9:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie	3 hr
Jul 29, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Burke, Mountrail, Renville, Ward	59 min
Jul 29, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Oliver	46 min
Jul 29, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Stark	44 min
Jul 29, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Renville	59 min
Jul 29, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	65 min
Jul 29, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Grant, Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Stark	63 min
Jul 29, 10:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	31 min
Jul 29, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Oliver, Sheridan	33 min
Jul 29, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Hettinger, Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Stark	28 min
Jul 30, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	35 min
Jul 30, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	38 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.