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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 15, 2015Burleigh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2015, 7:13 AM CDT for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 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: Jul 15, 2015, 7:13 AM CDT (12:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2015, 7:45 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County Burleigh County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 302 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: 710 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1242 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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.

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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 Jul 15, 6:50 AM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 6:50 AM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 6:42 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 15, 1:36 AM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 3:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 4:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 7:13 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Wells	37 min
Jul 14, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Kidder	48 min
Jul 14, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Morton	27 min
Jul 14, 9:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Williams	41 min
Jul 14, 9:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Williams	51 min
Jul 14, 10:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Williams	39 min
Jul 15, 1:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dunn	24 min
Jul 15, 3:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mountrail	52 min
Jul 15, 4:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mountrail	63 min
Jul 15, 7:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sheridan	31 min
Jul 15, 9:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Wells	26 min
Jul 15, 9:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Foster	28 min
Jul 15, 12:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	LaMoure	30 min
Jul 15, 1:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	LaMoure	3 hr
Jul 15, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	26 min
Jul 15, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Foster	35 min
Jul 15, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	24 min
Jul 15, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	24 min
Jul 15, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Morton	26 min
Jul 15, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	51 min
Jul 15, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	40 min
Jul 15, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux	55 min
Jul 15, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	49 min
Jul 15, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sioux	27 min
Jul 15, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	65 min
Jul 15, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	61 min
Jul 15, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Hettinger	57 min
Jul 15, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	60 min

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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.