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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

April 14, 2016Golden Valley County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Apr 14, 2016, 8:55 PM MDT for Golden Valley County, North Dakota. It was in force for 35 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 14, 2016, 8:55 PM MDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2016, 9:30 PM MDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County Golden Valley County, ND

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 234 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 251 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: 1841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 364 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 14, 7:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 7:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 14, 8:41 PM MDT, 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
941 PM CDT THU APR 14 2016

NDZ017>021-031>034-040>045-160245-
MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-
MORTON-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-
941 PM CDT THU APR 14 2016 /841 PM MDT THU APR 14 2016/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST NORTH
DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD
BECOME STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

NDZ001>005-009>013-022-023-025-035>037-046>048-050-051-160245-
DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD-
MCHENRY-PIERCE-SHERIDAN-WELLS-FOSTER-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-STUTSMAN-
EMMONS-LOGAN-LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY-
941 PM CDT THU APR 14 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS
WILL LINGER INTO THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY FRIDAY NIGHT. SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

AYD

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 14, 8:55 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
855 PM MDT THU APR 14 2016

NDZ031-150330-
GOLDEN VALLEY ND-
855 PM MDT THU APR 14 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN GOLDEN VALLEY
COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM MDT...

AT 855 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
WIBAUX...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BEACH AND SENTINEL BUTTE.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER
INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 4724 10405 4728 10397 4690 10375 4679 10404
TIME...MOT...LOC 0255Z 231DEG 23KT 4692 10418

ACOOP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 11:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant, Sioux	39 min
Apr 15, 12:05 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Adams, Burleigh, Grant, Hettinger, Morton, Oliver and 2 more	40 min
Apr 15, 12:40 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Adams, Burleigh, Grant, Hettinger, Morton, Oliver and 2 more	50 min
Apr 15, 1:29 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Adams, Burleigh, Grant, Hettinger, McLean, Mercer and 4 more	46 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.