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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

April 6, 2016Logan County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Apr 6, 2016, 9:37 PM CDT for Logan County, North Dakota. It was in force for 38 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: Apr 6, 2016, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2016, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County Logan County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 1145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 6, 8:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 8:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 6, 8:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
821 PM CDT WED APR 6 2016

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-080130-
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-
821 PM CDT WED APR 6 2016 /721 PM MDT WED APR 6 2016/

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...TONIGHT

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS MAY BE ELEVATED THURSDAY...SATURDAY AND
SUNDAY DUE TO BREEZY AND DRY WEATHER...ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHWEST
NORTH DAKOTA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 6, 8:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 6, 8:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 6, 9:00 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 6, 9:19 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
919 PM CDT WED APR 6 2016

NDZ001-070300-
DIVIDE-
919 PM CDT WED APR 6 2016

...HIGH WINDS WILL AFFECT DIVIDE COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...

PASSING SHOWERS HAVE CREATED WINDS GUSTS AS HIGH AS 61 MPH IN PARTS
OF DIVIDE COUNTY TONIGHT.

SHOWERS MAY CONTINUE TO CAUSE WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH THROUGH 10 PM CDT.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CROSBY...NOONAN...FORTUNA...ALKABO...WRITING ROCK STATE HISTORICAL SITE
AND AMBROSE.

LAT...LON 4900 10294 4872 10294 4872 10289 4864 10288
      4863 10405 4900 10405
TIME...MOT...LOC 0216Z 314DEG 48KT 4886 10362

MATHEWS

Local storm report, Apr 6, 9:22 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
922 PM CDT WED APR 6 2016

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

0856 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 9 NW ALKABO             48.97N 104.00W
04/06/2016  M61 MPH          DIVIDE             ND   MESONET

&&

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Special weather statement, Apr 6, 9:37 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
937 PM CDT WED APR 6 2016

NDZ036-037-047-070315-
STUTSMAN-LOGAN-KIDDER-
937 PM CDT WED APR 6 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN KIDDER...
SOUTHWESTERN STUTSMAN AND LOGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 1015 PM CDT...

AT 936 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER TAPPEN...OR 13
MILES WEST OF MEDINA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TAPPEN...STREETER...LEHR...FREDONIA AND CRYSTAL SPRINGS.

LAT...LON 4629 9955 4690 9975 4699 9952 4648 9904
      4628 9904 4628 9951
TIME...MOT...LOC 0236Z 330DEG 52KT 4688 9958

MATHEWS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, McIntosh	42 min
Apr 6, 7:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McHenry	27 min
Apr 6, 8:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sheridan	45 min
Apr 6, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Oliver	46 min
Apr 6, 9:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burleigh	45 min
Apr 6, 9:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Divide	41 min
Apr 6, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	45 min
Apr 7, 12:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	39 min
Apr 7, 12:25 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Dunn, Emmons and 14 more	19 hr
Apr 7, 3:55 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Slope	15 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Dakota, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.