Alert archive / North Dakota / Winter Storm Watches in 2012
Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this winter storm watch at Feb 26, 2012, 4:01 AM MST for 21 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Feb 28, 2012, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2012, 4:01 AM MST (11:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 28, 2012, 5:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2012, 3:27 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
All 21 counties
Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:59 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 1332 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 644 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 26, 3:00 AM MST, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 3:00 AM MST, 1 hour 1 minute before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 25, 9:47 PM MST, 6 hours 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1047 PM CST SAT FEB 25 2012 NDZ001>005-010>013-022-023-025-037-261200- DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-MOUNTRAIL-WARD-MCHENRY- PIERCE-SHERIDAN-WELLS-FOSTER-STUTSMAN- 1047 PM CST SAT FEB 25 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND WARNINGS AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BIS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND WARNINGS AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BIS. ANOTHER WINTER STORM SYSTEM WILL IMPACT THE REGION TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOWFALL AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN NORTH DAKOTA...WITH HEAVY AMOUNTS POSSIBLE FARTHER SOUTH IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL IN SNOWFALL REPORTS WITH THESE UPCOMING STORMS. NDZ009-017>021-031>036-040>048-050-051-261200- WILLIAMS-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-GOLDEN VALLEY- BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT- BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN-LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY- 1047 PM CST SAT FEB 25 2012 /947 PM MST SAT FEB 25 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND ADVISORIES AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BIS .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND ADVISORIES AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BIS ANOTHER WINTER STORM SYSTEM WILL IMPACT THE REGION TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY FROM SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THROUGH THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY. SIGNIFICANT TRAVEL HAZARDS ARE POSSIBLE. MONITOR WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BIS...NOAA WEATHER RADIO...AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL IN SNOWFALL REPORTS WITH THESE UPCOMING STORMS. NH/TM/RK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2:10 PM MST | Blizzard Watch | BIS | Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster, Grant, Kidder and 8 more | 25 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.