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Winter Storm Warning 9, NWS Bismarck, ND

December 10, 201012 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this winter storm warning at Dec 10, 2010, 10:35 AM MST for 12 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 18 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 10, 2010, 10:35 AM MST (17:35 UTC)
Expired
Dec 11, 2010, 5:00 AM MST
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Dunn County, ND, Foster County, ND, Kidder County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Pierce 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 367 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 2010-12-10Temperature 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 2010-12-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 329 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
329 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
340 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 10, 3:37 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBISAdams, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster and 13 more25 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in North Dakota, 2010Every winter storm 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.