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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2015, 9:45 PM CDT for 6 counties in 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2015, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2015, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 80.0 mph
Counties Burleigh County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Stutsman County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 1150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 19, 9:45 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 9:45 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 839 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 2015 NDZ018>021-033>037-040>048-050-051-210145- DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-STUTSMAN- SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN-LA MOURE- MCINTOSH-DICKEY- 839 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD FROM SOUTHWESTERN INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. DAILY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK AT 701-223-4582...OR ON SOCIAL MEDIA. NDZ001>005-009>013-017-022-023-025-031-032-210145- DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD- MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-SHERIDAN-WELLS-FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY- BILLINGS- 839 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 2015 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...TONIGHT AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. DAILY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER EXPERIENCED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK AT 701-223-4582...OR ON SOCIAL MEDIA. JJS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 19, 9:12 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Bowman | 29 min |
| Jun 19, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Stark | 67 min |
| Jun 19, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, McLean, Morton, Oliver | 54 min |
| Jun 19, 8:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Bowman | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 8:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Morton, Oliver | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Kidder, Morton | 62 min |
| Jun 19, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Logan, Morton, Sioux | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Kidder, Stutsman | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 11:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Grant | 44 min |
| Jun 20, 4:30 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BIS | Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Divide, McHenry, Mercer and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 2:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Bottineau | 30 min |
| Jun 20, 2:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Pierce | 36 min |
| Jun 20, 3:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Pierce | 32 min |
| Jun 20, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce | 20 min |
| Jun 20, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Wells | 24 min |
| Jun 20, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Pierce | 34 min |
| Jun 20, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Foster | 25 min |
| Jun 20, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015
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.