Alert archive / North Dakota / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 6, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this wind advisory at Feb 23, 2012, 9:47 AM MST for 7 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2012, 9:47 AM MST (16:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2012, 5:49 PM MST
- In force
- 8 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 16:52 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
375 WWUS73 KBIS 231647 NPWBIS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1047 AM CST THU FEB 23 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON... .EXPECT SUSTAINED NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH ACROSS SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON. PLACES LIKE BOWMAN...HETTINTER...AMIDON...NEW ENGLAND...BEACH...MEDORA AND BELFIELD ARE ALL IN THE ADVISORY AREA. SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS WILL ALSO DEVELOP ALONG WITH THE GUSTY WINDS...MAKING TRAVEL MORE DIFFICULT AT TIMES. THE WINDS WILL BEGIN TO SUBSIDE AND FALL BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA BY EARLY THURSDAY EVENING. USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING...ESPECIALLY IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...AS STRONG WINDS MAY MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. NDZ031>033-040-041-043-044-240100- /O.NEW.KBIS.WI.Y.0006.120223T1647Z-120224T0100Z/ GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-SLOPE-HETTINGER-BOWMAN-ADAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BEACH...MEDORA...DICKINSON...MARMARTH... MOTT...BOWMAN...HETTINGER 947 AM MST THU FEB 23 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING. * GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WILL OCCUR ACROSS SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS WILL ALSO DEVELOP ALONG WITH THE GUSTY WINDS...WHICH WILL MAKE TRAVEL MORE DIFFICULT. * USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING...ESPECIALLY IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...AS STRONG WINDS MAY MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...AND OR GUSTS UNDER 58 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ KS
1 follow-up statement
898 WWUS73 KBIS 240049 NPWBIS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 649 PM CST THU FEB 23 2012 ...WINDS DIMINISHING SOUTHWEST... .THE WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED AND THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ALTHOUGH THE WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED...THERE COULD STILL BE SOME GUSTY WINDS IN SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS THIS EVENING. NDZ031>033-040-041-043-044-240200- /O.CAN.KBIS.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-120224T0100Z/ GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-SLOPE-HETTINGER-BOWMAN-ADAMS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BEACH...MEDORA...DICKINSON...MARMARTH... MOTT...BOWMAN...HETTINGER 549 PM MST THU FEB 23 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED AND THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ WAA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 6:25 AM MST | Winter Storm Warning | BIS | Grant | 4 hr |
| Feb 23, 1:46 PM MST | Winter Storm Watch | BIS | Billings, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey, Divide and 22 more | 24 hr |
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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.