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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 18, 201610 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this heat advisory at Jul 18, 2016, 2:50 PM CDT for 10 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Jul 19, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 2016, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 19, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 19, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Bottineau County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Grant County, ND, Kidder County, ND, McHenry County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Renville County, ND, Sheridan County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 405 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2016-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 330 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2016-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
330 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-353 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2100 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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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.