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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jun 27, 2014, 3:00 PM CDT for Foster 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2014, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2014, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
County Foster County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 27, 2:57 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:57 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 9:41 AM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 941 AM CDT FRI JUN 27 2014 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-281445- DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD- MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS- FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER- STUTSMAN-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN- LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY- 941 AM CDT FRI JUN 27 2014 /841 AM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014/ ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES THROUGH TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME LIKELY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ON SATURDAY...WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEST. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH ON SUNDAY...AND ACROSS ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA MONDAY AND TUESDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...RAINFALL TOTALS AND FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK AT 701-223-4582...OR ON SOCIAL MEDIA. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT WEATHER.GOV/BIS TM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 153 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2014 NDZ037-048-271945- LA MOURE-STUTSMAN- 153 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2014 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING NORTH INTO SOUTHERN STUTSMAN COUNTY... AT 148 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NORTONVILLE...OR 22 MILES SOUTH OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 30 MPH...DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND A PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... JAMESTOWN... MONTPELIER... BUCHANAN... SPIRITWOOD LAKE... MILLARTON... SYDNEY... ELDRIDGE... 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 4712 9907 4713 9852 4653 9860 4650 9886 TIME...MOT...LOC 1851Z 172DEG 17KT 4661 9875 HEINERT
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:00 PM CDT, 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Golden Valley | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 9:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Billings | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 9:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | McKenzie | 52 min |
| Jun 26, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Golden Valley, McKenzie | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 9:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 10:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Billings | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 10:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Bowman, Slope | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 11:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Adams, Billings, Golden Valley, Hettinger, Slope, Stark | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 12:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Mountrail | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 12:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley, Stark | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 1:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Dunn | 21 min |
| Jun 27, 1:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Dunn, Mercer, Oliver | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 1:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Burke, Mountrail | 24 min |
| Jun 27, 2:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Mercer | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 2:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Ward | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 3:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Renville, Ward | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 4:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Bottineau | 26 min |
| Jun 27, 1:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Stutsman | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Grant, Morton, Oliver | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Bottineau | 29 min |
| Jun 27, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Adams, Hettinger | 60 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in North Dakota, 2014Every 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.