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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this freeze watch at Sep 14, 2011, 2:58 AM MDT for 11 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Sep 15, 2011, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 2011, 2:58 AM MDT (08:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 15, 2011, 12:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2011, 2:10 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
Counties Billings County, ND, Burke County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Stark County, ND, Williams County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch 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 freeze watch went out at Sep 14, 2:27 AM MDT, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 2:27 AM MDT, 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 13, 2:40 PM MDT, 12 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 340 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2011 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-032>037-041-042-142045- DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD- MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS- FOSTER-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-STUTSMAN-HETTINGER- GRANT- 340 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2011 /240 PM MDT TUE SEP 13 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE UPPER 20S ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...WITH LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S ACROSS MUCH OF THE INTERSTATE 94 CORRIDOR...AND A FREEZE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THESE AREAS TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY FROST AND FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RETURN TO THE FORECAST SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. NDZ031-040-043>048-050-051-142045- GOLDEN VALLEY-SLOPE-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN-LA MOURE- MCINTOSH-DICKEY- 340 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2011 /240 PM MDT TUE SEP 13 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO FALL INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA. FROST WILL BE LIKELY FOR LOCATIONS EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER NEAR THE SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER AND A FROST ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR THESE AREAS. ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHWEST...WINDS WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH TO PREVENT FROST FORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY FROST AND FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RETURN TO THE FORECAST SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. AYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 2:58 AM MDT | Freeze Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster and 14 more | 29 hr |
| Sep 14, 2:10 PM MDT | Frost Advisory | BIS | Billings, Divide, Dunn, Grant, Hettinger, McKenzie and 2 more | 18 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.