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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 30, 2016McIntosh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2016, 4:33 PM CDT for McIntosh 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: May 30, 2016, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2016, 5:05 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County McIntosh County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 30, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 197 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1274 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

312 
WUUS53 KBIS 302133
SVRBIS
NDC051-302230-
/O.NEW.KBIS.SV.W.0013.160530T2133Z-160530T2230Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
433 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 433 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF
  VENTURIA...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF EUREKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ASHLEY AROUND 500 PM CDT. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4628 9925 4628 9900 4595 9901 4594 9905
      4594 9974
TIME...MOT...LOC 2133Z 236DEG 22KT 4589 9952 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

JONES

1 follow-up statement

668 
WWUS53 KBIS 302205
SVSBIS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
505 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

NDC051-302215-
/O.CAN.KBIS.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160530T2230Z/
MCINTOSH ND-
505 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS
STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4628 9925 4628 9900 4595 9901 4594 9905
      4594 9974
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 236DEG 22KT 4600 9929 

$$

JONES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 8:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dunn	27 min
May 30, 12:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Wells	51 min
May 30, 12:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sheridan	46 min
May 30, 1:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Oliver	44 min
May 30, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Oliver	37 min
May 30, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Sioux	43 min
May 30, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	44 min

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.