Alert archive / North Dakota / Wind Chill Advisories in 2015
Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 3, 2015, 5:30 AM MST for 22 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 54 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2015, 5:30 AM MST (12:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2015, 11:00 AM MST
- In force
- 54 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
All 22 counties
Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman 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, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Williams County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Jan 3, 3:06 AM MST, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 3:06 AM MST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 3, 3:01 AM MST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 401 AM CST SAT JAN 3 2015 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-041015- DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD- MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS- FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER- STUTSMAN-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN- LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY- 401 AM CST SAT JAN 3 2015 /301 AM MST SAT JAN 3 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT. LIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE THIS MORNING. GUSTY WINDS MAY CREATE BLOWING SNOW...REDUCING VISIBILITY. DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS AROUND 30 BELOW WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON...WITH EVEN COLDER READINGS POSSIBLE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. FRIGID WIND CHILL VALUES ARE EXPECTED EACH NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ADDITIONAL SNOW IS POSSIBLE OVER THE AREA MONDAY WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE ACCUMULATIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL THE BISMARCK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT 701-223-4582 OR CONTACT THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA WITH SNOWFALL TOTALS. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT WEATHER.GOV/BIS AJ/JJS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 3, 2:35 AM MST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 335 AM CST SAT JAN 3 2015 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-031830- DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD- MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS- FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER- STUTSMAN-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN- LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROSBY...BOWBELLS...MOHALL... BOTTINEAU...ROLLA...WILLISTON...NEW TOWN...MINOT...TOWNER... RUGBY...WATFORD CITY...KILLDEER...BEULAH...HAZEN...CENTER... GARRISON...MCCLUSKY...HARVEY...CARRINGTON...BEACH...MEDORA... DICKINSON...MANDAN...BISMARCK...STEELE...JAMESTOWN...MARMARTH... MOTT...ELGIN...BOWMAN...HETTINGER...FORT YATES...LINTON... NAPOLEON...EDGELEY...ASHLEY...OAKES 335 AM CST SAT JAN 3 2015 /235 AM MST SAT JAN 3 2015/ ...DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS WILL IMPACT WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THIS WEEKEND THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF NEXT WEEK... AN ARCTIC AIRMASS WILL MOVE INTO NORTH DAKOTA TODAY...BRINGING NORTH WINDS GUSTING TO AROUND 40 MPH...ALONG WITH WIND CHILL VALUES OF 25 BELOW TO 35 BELOW BY THIS AFTERNOON. SOME BLOWING SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE...REDUCING VISIBILITY AT TIMES. THE WINDS WILL DECREASE FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRIGID WIND CHILLS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE COLDEST WIND CHILLS WILL BE ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 52 AFFECTING KENMARE...MINOT...RUGBY...BOTTINEAU... HARVEY...CARRINGTON...AND JAMESTOWN WHERE READINGS AS COLD AS 50 BELOW ARE POSSIBLE EACH NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING. ELSEWHERE ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...WIND CHILL READINGS AS COLD AS 35 BELOW ARE POSSIBLE. THOSE WHO MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS OR WITH TRAVEL PLANS SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE BITTERLY COLD WIND CHILLS. FROSTBITE AND HYPOTHERMIA WILL BE POSSIBLE IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. SEE THE LATEST FORECAST UPDATES ON THIS EXTENDED PERIOD OF DANGEROUS COLD. JJS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 5:30 AM MST | Wind Chill Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Burke, Foster, McHenry, Pierce, Renville and 4 more | 54 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.