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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2013, 7:41 PM CDT for 4 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2013, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2013, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bottineau County, ND, McHenry County, ND, Renville County, ND, Ward County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 13, 6:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 6:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 252 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 2013 NDZ001-002-009-010-017-018-031>033-040-041-043-044-142000- DIVIDE-BURKE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-MCKENZIE-DUNN-GOLDEN VALLEY- BILLINGS-STARK-SLOPE-HETTINGER-BOWMAN-ADAMS- 252 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 2013 /152 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA ON SUNDAY. THEREAFTER...NEAR DAILY CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THROUGH NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NDZ003>005-011>013-019>023-025-034>037-042-045>048-050-051-142000- RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WARD-MCHENRY-PIERCE-MERCER-OLIVER- MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS-FOSTER-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-STUTSMAN- GRANT-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN-LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY- 252 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 2013 /152 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME STRONG AT TIMES. THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND PENNY-SIZED HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS...MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 83. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA ON SUNDAY. THEREAFTER...NEAR DAILY CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THROUGH NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. TM/AYD
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 13, 6:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Burke, McHenry, Renville, Ward | 38 min |
| Jul 13, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope | 54 min |
| Jul 13, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce, Rolette | 58 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013
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.