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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 9, 20165 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this heat advisory at Jul 9, 2016, 3:47 PM CDT for 5 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Jul 10, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 2016, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 10, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 10, 2016, 6:37 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Dickey County, ND, Emmons County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 9, 3:08 PM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 3:08 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 12:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 11:42 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 11:49 AM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 12:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 12:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 3:02 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
302 PM CDT SAT JUL 09 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0610 AM     HAIL             10 N ZAHL               48.72N 103.69W
07/09/2016  E0.75 INCH       DIVIDE             ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HAIL OBSERVED FOR ABOUT 3 MINUTES.

0735 AM     TORNADO          FLASHER                 46.46N 101.23W
07/09/2016                   MORTON             ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TORNADO SPOTTED BY AN OBSERVER AT CROWN BUTTE LAKE. SHE
            THINKS IT IS JUST NORTH OF FLASHER.

1035 AM     HAIL             NAPOLEON                46.51N  99.77W
07/09/2016  E0.88 INCH       LOGAN              ND   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            30 TO 40 MPH WINDS.

1038 AM     HAIL             S NAPOLEON              46.51N  99.77W
07/09/2016  E0.88 INCH       LOGAN              ND   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            LASTED A FEW MINUTES

&&

ABELING

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 3:47 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
347 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

NDZ005-013-092115-
PIERCE-ROLETTE-
347 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN ROLETTE AND
NORTHEASTERN PIERCE COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM CDT...

AT 346 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WOLFORD...OR
18 MILES EAST OF RUGBY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WOLFORD AND AGATE.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 4837 9949 4837 9968 4850 9979 4871 9949
TIME...MOT...LOC 2046Z 240DEG 34KT 4847 9962

MATHEWS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 2:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Bowman	49 min
Jul 9, 3:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Adams	48 min
Jul 9, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	47 min
Jul 9, 4:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Adams	46 min
Jul 9, 5:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant, Hettinger	43 min
Jul 9, 6:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	46 min
Jul 9, 6:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mountrail	47 min
Jul 9, 6:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Divide	43 min
Jul 9, 6:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burke	50 min
Jul 9, 7:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Morton	48 min
Jul 9, 7:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	37 min
Jul 9, 8:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	38 min
Jul 9, 8:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	34 min
Jul 9, 9:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	35 min
Jul 9, 9:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan, McIntosh	64 min
Jul 9, 10:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McIntosh	21 min
Jul 9, 10:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	LaMoure	61 min
Jul 9, 11:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McIntosh	25 min
Jul 9, 11:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey	48 min
Jul 9, 11:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	26 min
Jul 9, 12:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McIntosh	20 min
Jul 9, 12:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McIntosh	16 min
Jul 9, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Rolette	28 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.