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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 12, 2016McLean County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jun 12, 2016, 12:49 AM CDT for McLean County, North Dakota. It was in force for 41 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: Jun 12, 2016, 12:49 AM CDT (05:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2016, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County McLean County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:51 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 1574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 597 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Jun 12, 12:39 AM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 12:39 AM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 12:33 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 11:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1130 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2016

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

1127 PM     HAIL             1 S MINOT               48.22N 101.30W
06/11/2016  E0.50 INCH       WARD               ND   PUBLIC

            PASSED ON VIA SOCIAL MEDIA

&&

MMATHEWS

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 11:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1040 PM MDT SAT JUN 11 2016

NDZ017-018-032-120530-
MCKENZIE ND-BILLINGS ND-DUNN ND-
1040 PM MDT SAT JUN 11 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN BILLINGS...WEST
CENTRAL DUNN AND SOUTH CENTRAL MCKENZIE COUNTIES UNTIL 1130 PM MDT...

AT 1039 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR SOUTH FAIRFIELD...OR 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KILLDEER...MOVING
NORTH AT 45 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GRASSY BUTTE...SOUTH FAIRFIELD...FAIRFIELD AND OAKDALE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4758 10321 4748 10284 4704 10318 4710 10342
TIME...MOT...LOC 0439Z 202DEG 40KT 4715 10326

SAVADEL

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 11:56 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 12:05 AM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 12, 12:27 AM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 12, 12:49 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 7:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Adams	49 min
Jun 11, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Adams	30 min
Jun 11, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Golden Valley, Slope	31 min
Jun 11, 8:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Hettinger	42 min
Jun 11, 10:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Billings	25 min
Jun 11, 11:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Renville, Ward	35 min
Jun 11, 11:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Billings	50 min
Jun 11, 11:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sheridan	49 min
Jun 12, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Pierce	48 min
Jun 12, 1:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Ward	44 min
Jun 12, 5:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	41 min
Jun 12, 5:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	27 min
Jun 12, 7:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McIntosh	34 min
Jun 12, 7:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Kidder	35 min
Jun 12, 9:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Rolette	34 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.