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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 9, 2015Morton County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2015, 5:52 PM CDT for Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 53 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, 2015, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2015, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County Morton County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 341 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: 57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 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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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 2:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stark	47 min
Aug 9, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Hettinger	33 min
Aug 9, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mercer	30 min
Aug 9, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dunn	25 min
Aug 9, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Billings	39 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Dakota, 2015 Every special weather statement 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.