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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 3, 2016McKenzie County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2016, 3:30 PM CDT for McKenzie County, North Dakota. It was in force for 60 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: Jul 3, 2016, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2016, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County McKenzie County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 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 Jul 3, 2:47 PM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:47 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 2:31 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
231 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016

NDZ001>004-009>012-017>022-031>036-040>047-050-041945-
DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD-MCHENRY-
MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-GOLDEN VALLEY-
BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-
BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN-MCINTOSH-
231 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016 /131 PM MDT SUN JUL 3 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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY INTO TONIGHT. ISOLATED
STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF
QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED...ESPECIALLY AFTER 3 PM CDT OR 2 PM MDT
AND ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.

NDZ005-013-023-025-037-048-051-041945-
ROLETTE-PIERCE-WELLS-FOSTER-STUTSMAN-LA MOURE-DICKEY-
231 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG
WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. THERE IS A MARGINAL
CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON INDEPENDENCE DAY AND TUESDAY,
ESPECIALLY IN THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

HEINERT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:30 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
330 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016

NDZ017-032130-
MCKENZIE ND-
330 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHERN MCKENZIE
COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM CDT/330 PM MDT/...

AT 329 PM CDT/229 PM MDT/...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF
ARNEGARD TO 4 MILES EAST OF ALEXANDER TO 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EAST
FAIRVIEW. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WATFORD CITY...ALEXANDER...ARNEGARD...KEENE AND RAWSON.

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

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 4803 10270 4771 10326 4774 10387 4798 10330
TIME...MOT...LOC 2029Z 259DEG 23KT 4794 10336 4786 10356 4777 10380

ABELING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 7:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley, Slope	55 min
Jul 2, 7:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	49 min
Jul 3, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Hettinger	33 min
Jul 3, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dunn	46 min
Jul 3, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer	64 min
Jul 3, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mountrail	42 min
Jul 3, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	25 min
Jul 3, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer	66 min
Jul 3, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mountrail	64 min
Jul 3, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Oliver	60 min
Jul 3, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	25 min
Jul 3, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	27 min
Jul 3, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Mercer, Morton, Oliver	61 min
Jul 3, 6:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	28 min
Jul 3, 6:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Renville	50 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.