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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2014, 2:30 PM CDT for Williams County, North Dakota. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 9, 2014, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2014, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
County Williams County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 Aug 9, 11:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 11:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 2:30 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 230 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014 NDZ009-092000- WILLIAMS ND- 230 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RAY... AT 228 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RAY...OR 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLISTON... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... RAY AROUND 235 PM CDT. TIOGA AROUND 300 PM CDT. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4846 10289 4820 10285 4823 10332 4841 10333 TIME...MOT...LOC 1930Z 267DEG 19KT 4832 10319
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Williams | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Burleigh | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | McKenzie | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 6:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | McKenzie | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 6:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Morton | 50 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.