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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT for Sheridan County, Wells County, North Dakota. It was in force for 60 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 6, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2013, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Sheridan County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 6, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 6, 3:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 3:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 2:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 258 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013 NDZ005-013-020-022-023-025-034>037-042-045>048-050-051-070700- ROLETTE-PIERCE-OLIVER-SHERIDAN-WELLS-FOSTER-MORTON-BURLEIGH- KIDDER-STUTSMAN-GRANT-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN-LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY- 258 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013 /158 PM MDT SAT JUL 6 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 EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY EVENING...SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE ISOLATED HAIL AROUND GOLFBALL SIZE AND A FEW WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EVERY DAY THROUGH TUESDAY...AND AGAIN THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE MONDAY...MAINLY ALONG THE HIGHWAY 83 CORRIDOR. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH EARLY EVENING. NDZ004-012-070700- BOTTINEAU-MCHENRY- 258 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING...BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EVERY DAY THROUGH TUESDAY...AND AGAIN THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. NDZ001>003-009>011-017>019-021-031>033-040-041-043-044-070700- DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD-MCKENZIE-DUNN- MERCER-MCLEAN-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-SLOPE-HETTINGER-BOWMAN- ADAMS- 258 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013 /158 PM MDT SAT JUL 6 2013/ 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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING...BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EVERY DAY THROUGH TUESDAY...AND AGAIN THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST...AND AGAIN MONDAY...MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE HIGHWAY 83 CORRIDOR. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. RP KINNEY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 1:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 6, 6:14 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 614 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013 NDZ012-022-062345- MCHENRY-SHERIDAN- 614 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... AT 612 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR KIEF...OR 48 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MINOT... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 30 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... DRAKE... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW AROUND. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN QUICKLY LEAD TO FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. JONES
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 6:24 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 624 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013 NDZ022-070000- SHERIDAN- 624 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CENTRAL SHERIDAN COUNTY... AT 619 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF MCCLUSKY...OR 57 MILES NORTH OF BISMARCK...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 30 MPH AND HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL SHERIDAN COUNTY. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW AROUND. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN QUICKLY LEAD TO FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. JONES
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 6:52 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 652 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013 NDZ004-070015- BOTTINEAU- 652 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL BOTTINEAU COUNTY... AT 647 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF SOURIS...AND WEST OF BOTTINEAU...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 30 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN...WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BOTTINEAU... ROTH... SOURIS... CARBURY... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW AROUND. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN QUICKLY LEAD TO FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Kidder, Sheridan, Wells | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Kidder | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder, Stutsman | 62 min |
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.