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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 22, 2016Billings County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2016, 4:39 PM MDT for Billings County, North Dakota. It was in force for 51 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 22, 2016, 4:39 PM MDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2016, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County Billings County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 228 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 277 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 339 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 May 22, 1:14 PM MDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 1:14 PM MDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 2:06 PM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 4:39 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
439 PM MDT SUN MAY 22 2016

NDZ017-031-032-222330-
MCKENZIE-BILLINGS-GOLDEN VALLEY-
439 PM MDT SUN MAY 22 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN GOLDEN VALLEY...
NORTHERN BILLINGS AND SOUTH CENTRAL MCKENZIE COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM
MDT...

AT 439 PM MDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTH OF
SENTINEL BUTTE...OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 50 MPH.

WINDS GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FAIRFIELD.

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

LAT...LON 4754 10356 4718 10307 4693 10391 4704 10404
      4710 10405
TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 229DEG 44KT 4705 10391

KS/CJS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 5:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	39 min
May 22, 5:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	64 min
May 22, 5:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	48 min

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.