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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 24, 2014Stark County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at May 24, 2014, 10:12 PM MDT for Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2014, 10:12 PM MDT (04:12 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2014, 11:15 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 286 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

633 
WWUS83 KBIS 250412
SPSBIS

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1112 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2014

NDZ033-034-042-250515-
GRANT-MORTON-STARK-
1012 PM MDT SAT MAY 24 2014

...STRONG STORM EAST OF DICKINSON...

AT 1008 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF RICHARDTON...OR 24 MILES EAST OF
DICKINSON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. 
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO 
ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  HEBRON...
  GLEN ULLIN...


GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW
AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. 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.

LAT...LON 4692 10243 4698 10218 4698 10184 4664 10181
      4663 10237
TIME...MOT...LOC 0411Z 258DEG 18KT 4678 10229

$$

KINNEY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 6:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stark	66 min
May 24, 7:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stark	52 min
May 24, 8:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Morton	60 min
May 24, 8:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stark	59 min
May 24, 9:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Stark	6 hr
May 24, 11:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie	45 min
May 25, 12:10 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie	50 min
May 25, 12:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	62 min
May 25, 12:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	64 min
May 25, 1:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	60 min
May 25, 2:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	LaMoure	65 min
May 25, 2:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	LaMoure	62 min
May 25, 4:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	LaMoure	62 min
May 25, 4:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey	64 min
May 25, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	56 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Dakota, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.