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Winter Storm Warning 11, NWS Bismarck, ND

December 19, 201022 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this winter storm warning at Dec 19, 2010, 2:11 PM MST for 22 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Dec 20, 2010, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 19, 2010, 2:11 PM MST (21:11 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 20, 2010, 5:00 AM MST
Expired
Dec 21, 2010, 5:00 AM MST
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
All 22 counties

Billings County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burke County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Foster County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND, Williams County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 378 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2010-12-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2010-12-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1115 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 19, 2:11 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBISAdams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Dunn and 12 more30 hr

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.