Alert archive / North Dakota / Winter Storm Watches in 2013
Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this winter storm watch at Feb 8, 2013, 3:54 AM CST for 9 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Feb 10, 2013, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 8, 2013, 3:54 AM CST (09:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 10, 2013, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 9, 2013, 3:28 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
Counties Dickey County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:52 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in North Dakota, 2013Every winter storm watch 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.