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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Bismarck, ND

February 13, 20106 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this winter storm warning at Feb 13, 2010, 11:45 AM CST for 6 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 10 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
Feb 13, 2010, 11:45 AM CST (17:45 UTC)
Expired
Feb 13, 2010, 10:06 PM CST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Bottineau County, ND, Foster County, ND, McHenry County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2010-02-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2010-02-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.