Alert archive / North Dakota / High Wind Warnings in 2011
High Wind Warning 6, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this high wind warning at Jun 17, 2011, 5:47 PM CDT for Divide County, Williams County, North Dakota. It was in force for 4 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
- Jun 17, 2011, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2011, 9:56 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
Counties Divide County, ND, Williams County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1161 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
324 WWUS73 KBIS 172247 NPWBIS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 547 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2011 ...A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR WILLIAMS AND DIVIDE COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA THIS EVENING.... .A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN...COMBINED WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE TO PRODUCING VERY GUSTY WINDS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. WINDS OF 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING OVER FAR NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA FROM WILLISTON...NORTH TO CROSBY. BE PREPARD FOR DANGEROUS WINDS GUSTS THIS EVENING IN THE AFFECTED AREA. NDZ001-009-180600- /O.NEW.KBIS.HW.W.0006.110617T2247Z-110618T0600Z/ DIVIDE-WILLIAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROSBY...WILLISTON 547 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT SATURDAY. * TIMING: WINDS WILL INCREASE THIS EVENING AND LAST TO NEAR MIDNIGHT. * WINDS:WEST WINDS 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. * IMPACTS:HIGH WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL HAZARDOUS FOR THOSE IN HIGH PROFLILE VECHILES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$ HW
1 follow-up statement
152 WWUS73 KBIS 180256 NPWBIS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 956 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2011 NDZ001-009-180400- /O.CAN.KBIS.HW.W.0006.000000T0000Z-110618T0600Z/ DIVIDE-WILLIAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROSBY...WILLISTON 956 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS FROM NORTHEAST MONTANA INTO WESTERN WILLIAMS AND DIVIDE COUNTIES HAVE DIMINISHED. THEREFORE THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ TWH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 9:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Divide | 9 hr |
| Jun 17, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | LaMoure | 23 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.