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Fire Weather Watch 9, NWS Bismarck, ND

March 27, 20129 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this fire weather watch at Mar 27, 2012, 2:56 PM MDT for 9 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Mar 29, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 27, 2012, 2:56 PM MDT (20:56 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 29, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Mar 29, 2012, 2:59 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

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

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 301 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2012-03-27Temperature 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2012-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1210 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 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
Mar 26, 9:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Morton24 min
Mar 27, 3:07 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBISAdams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Hettinger, Slope15 hr
Mar 27, 3:28 AM MDTWind AdvisoryBISDunn, Foster, McKenzie, Mercer, Oliver, Sheridan and 1 more12 hr
Mar 27, 3:12 PM MDTWind AdvisoryBISAdams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons and 10 more3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.