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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2016, 10:41 PM MDT for Golden Valley County, Slope County, North Dakota. It was in force for 49 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 9, 2016, 10:41 PM MDT (04:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2016, 11:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
Counties Golden Valley County, ND, Slope County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 231 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:41 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 236 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3085 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 20.1
The text
As transmitted.
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NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 9, 9:46 PM MDT, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 9:46 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1035 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016 NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-110345- DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD- MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS- FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER- STUTSMAN-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN- LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY- 1035 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016 /935 PM MDT SAT JUL 9 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA AND INTO THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING OVER ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS FAR SOUTH CENTRAL AND FAR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED. SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY EVENING...MAINLY WEST INTO NORTH CENTRAL. VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALL BE POSSIBLE. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. STRONG WESTERLY WINDS WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH POSSIBLE LATE MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. HEINERT
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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 10:05 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1041 PM MDT SAT JUL 9 2016
NDZ017-031-032-040-100530-
MCKENZIE-BILLINGS-GOLDEN VALLEY-SLOPE-
1041 PM MDT SAT JUL 9 2016
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT WESTERN SLOPE...GOLDEN
VALLEY...WESTERN BILLINGS AND SOUTHWESTERN MCKENZIE COUNTIES UNTIL
1130 PM MDT...
AT 1040 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF WIBAUX TO BAKER.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BEACH...MARMARTH...MEDORA...GOLVA...SENTINEL BUTTE...TROTTERS...
PRETTY BUTTE...ALPHA AND THREE V CROSSING.
LAT...LON 4737 10404 4752 10339 4637 10334 4628 10392
4628 10404
TIME...MOT...LOC 0440Z 231DEG 20KT 4706 10403 4638 10417
MATHEWSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 6:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Pierce | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 7:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Wells | 44 min |
| Jul 9, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Grant, Sioux | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster, Wells | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 7:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Foster, Wells | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 7:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Foster | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 7:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Wells | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton, Sioux | 60 min |
| Jul 9, 8:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Foster, Stutsman | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 8:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster, Wells | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 8:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Foster, Stutsman, Wells | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 8:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster, Stutsman, Wells | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 8:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Emmons, Morton, Sioux | 40 min |
| Jul 9, 8:58 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | BIS | Foster, Stutsman, Wells | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 9:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Emmons, Logan | 41 min |
| Jul 9, 9:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Wells | 39 min |
| Jul 9, 9:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 60 min |
| Jul 9, 10:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 10:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Logan, McIntosh | 40 min |
| Jul 9, 10:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Dickey, LaMoure, Stutsman | 59 min |
| Jul 9, 11:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Billings | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 12:02 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Dunn, Stark | 58 min |
| Jul 10, 12:47 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Stark | 58 min |
| Jul 10, 1:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, McLean, Mercer, Oliver, Sheridan | 60 min |
| Jul 10, 3:44 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Emmons, Kidder | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 5:42 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Stutsman | 63 min |
| Jul 10, 1:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Golden Valley | 38 min |
| Jul 10, 2:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 3:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn | 64 min |
| Jul 10, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 4:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | McKenzie | 42 min |
| Jul 10, 4:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail, Ward | 53 min |
| Jul 10, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Hettinger, Slope and 1 more | 51 min |
| Jul 10, 5:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | McKenzie | 41 min |
| Jul 10, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Billings, Dunn, Grant, Hettinger, Mercer and 5 more | 54 min |
| Jul 10, 5:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Burke | 31 min |
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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.