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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 3, 2016Kidder County, Logan County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2016, 9:29 PM CDT for Kidder County, Logan County, North Dakota. It was in force for 61 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, 9:29 PM CDT (02:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2016, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Kidder County, ND, Logan County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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, 9:18 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 9:18 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 7:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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

NDZ003-004-011-012-019>022-034>036-042-045>047-050-050015-
RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-WARD-MCHENRY-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-
MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-GRANT-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN-MCINTOSH-
708 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016 /608 PM MDT 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...TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. SEVERE STORMS
ARE POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF
GOLBALL AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED...ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.

NDZ001-002-005-009-010-013-017-018-023-025-031>033-037-040-041-
043-044-048-051-050015-
DIVIDE-BURKE-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-
WELLS-FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-STUTSMAN-SLOPE-
HETTINGER-BOWMAN-ADAMS-LA MOURE-DICKEY-
708 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016 /608 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...TONIGHT

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

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

WAA

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 8:48 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 9:13 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 9:29 PM 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
Jul 3, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	56 min
Jul 3, 7:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burleigh, Morton, Oliver	38 min
Jul 3, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	33 min
Jul 3, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder, Morton	63 min
Jul 3, 8:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Renville	27 min
Jul 3, 10:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Foster, LaMoure, Stutsman	54 min
Jul 4, 8:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Renville	30 min
Jul 4, 8:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Renville	35 min
Jul 4, 9:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	65 min
Jul 4, 2:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Bottineau	26 min
Jul 4, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Bottineau	49 min
Jul 4, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Rolette	61 min
Jul 4, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Pierce	41 min
Jul 4, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Pierce	67 min
Jul 4, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	36 min
Jul 4, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	16 min
Jul 4, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	24 min
Jul 4, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	29 min
Jul 4, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	29 min
Jul 4, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	24 min
Jul 4, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	LaMoure	25 min
Jul 4, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McIntosh	20 min
Jul 4, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey	22 min
Jul 4, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	42 min
Jul 4, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Foster	41 min
Jul 4, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	18 min
Jul 4, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster	45 min
Jul 4, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	19 min

Nearby

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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.