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Wind Chill Advisory 51, NWS Bismarck, ND

March 1, 20117 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this wind chill advisory at Mar 1, 2011, 3:05 PM MST for 7 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 1, 2011, 3:05 PM MST (22:05 UTC)
Expired
Mar 2, 2011, 9:43 AM MST
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 182 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 2011-03-01Temperature 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2011-03-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -97 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Mar 1, 2:23 PM MST, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 2:23 PM MST, 42 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 1, 6:18 AM MST, 8 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
718 AM CST TUE MAR 1 2011

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>019-021-031-032-021200-
DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD-
MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-MCLEAN-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-
718 AM CST TUE MAR 1 2011 /618 AM MST TUE MAR 1 2011/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS MORNING FOR
BLOWING SNOW AND LOW WIND CHILLS. A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING
SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE STATE THIS MORNING WILL CONTINUE TO RESULT IN
STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS UP TO 45 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG WILL CREATE
AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...AND WIND CHILLS OF 25 TO 30
BELOW ZERO THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. EXPECT SLICK ROAD CONDITIONS
IN MANY AREAS.

HAZARDOUS WIND CHILLS LOOK TO CONTINUE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND INTO
TUESDAY NIGHT OVER SOME AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

NDZ020-022-023-025-033>037-040>048-050-051-021200-
OLIVER-SHERIDAN-WELLS-FOSTER-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-
STUTSMAN-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN-
LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY-
718 AM CST TUE MAR 1 2011 /618 AM MST TUE MAR 1 2011/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE STATE THIS
MORNING. BREEZY NORTHWEST WINDS WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH...MUCH COLDER
AIR...AND SOME DRIFTING SNOW WILL OCCUR ALONG AND BEHIND THE COLD
FRONT THROUGH TODAY. EXPECT SLICK ROAD CONDITIONS IN MANY AREAS. WIND
CHILLS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM ZERO TO 20 BELOW DURING THE
AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

NH/KINNEY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 1, 9:20 AM MSTWind Chill AdvisoryBISAdams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more24 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in North Dakota, 2011Every wind chill advisory in 2011

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.