Alert archive / North Dakota / Freeze Warnings in 2015
Freeze Warning 1, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this freeze warning at May 17, 2015, 1:54 PM MDT for 25 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at May 18, 2015, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 2015, 1:54 PM MDT (19:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 18, 2015, 12:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- May 18, 2015, 8:56 AM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
All 25 counties
Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Renville County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Williams County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 350 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at May 17, 12:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 12:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 17, 10:15 AM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1115 AM CDT SUN MAY 17 2015 NDZ001-009-017-018-031>033-040-041-043-044-181615- DIVIDE-WILLIAMS-MCKENZIE-DUNN-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-SLOPE- HETTINGER-BOWMAN-ADAMS- 1115 AM CDT SUN MAY 17 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WINDY WITH RAIN SHOWERS TODAY...RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED MONDAY MORNING...TUESDAY MORNING...AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. NDZ019-020-034>037-042-045>048-050-051-181615- MERCER-OLIVER-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-STUTSMAN-GRANT-SIOUX-EMMONS- LOGAN-LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY- 1115 AM CDT SUN MAY 17 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WINDY WITH RAIN TODAY...RAIN HEAVY AT TIMES. A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED MONDAY MORNING...TUESDAY MORNING...AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. NDZ002>005-010>013-021>023-025-181615- BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-MOUNTRAIL-WARD-MCHENRY-PIERCE- MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS-FOSTER- 1115 AM CDT SUN MAY 17 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT VERY WINDY WITH RAIN AND SNOW CHANGING TO ALL SNOW THIS AFTERNOON. A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED TODAY AND A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF BETWEEN 3 AND 5 INCHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED MONDAY MORNING...TUESDAY MORNING...AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 17, 8:17 AM MDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
917 AM CDT SUN MAY 17 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0916 AM HEAVY RAIN 1 NNW BISMARCK 46.81N 100.78W
05/17/2015 M1.70 INCH BURLEIGH ND COCORAHS
24 HOUR REPORT
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KROLAKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 6:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Golden Valley | 28 min |
| May 16, 6:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 46 min |
| May 16, 6:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley | 52 min |
| May 16, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley, Slope | 61 min |
| May 16, 8:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Grant | 3 hr |
| May 16, 8:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Slope | 24 min |
| May 16, 8:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Slope | 36 min |
| May 16, 8:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Bowman, Slope | 44 min |
| May 16, 9:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Bowman | 36 min |
| May 17, 3:23 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | BIS | Bottineau, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster, Grant and 13 more | 27 hr |
| May 17, 3:45 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BIS | Bottineau, Burke, Foster, McHenry, Mountrail, Pierce and 4 more | 26 hr |
| May 17, 8:52 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Dickey, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh and 1 more | 24 hr |
| May 17, 12:13 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 7 days |
| May 17, 5:05 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | BIS | Pierce, Rolette | 7 hr |
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.