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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 10, 2016Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 10, 2016, 6:42 AM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 63 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 10, 2016, 6:42 AM CDT (11:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2016, 7:45 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:46 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 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

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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 10, 3:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 3:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 3:56 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 10, 1:39 AM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
139 AM CDT SUN JUL 10 2016

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

0111 AM     TSTM WND GST     1 NW DICKINSON          46.89N 102.80W
07/10/2016  M63 MPH          STARK              ND   MESONET

            63 MPH WIND GUST MEASURED BY DICKINSON NDAWN.

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JJS

Local storm report, Jul 10, 3:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 10, 4:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 10, 5:53 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 10, 6:28 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 10, 6:42 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
Jul 9, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Pierce	47 min
Jul 9, 8:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Wells	44 min
Jul 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Sioux	54 min
Jul 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Wells	54 min
Jul 9, 8:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Foster, Wells	25 min
Jul 9, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Foster	34 min
Jul 9, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Wells	43 min
Jul 9, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton, Sioux	60 min
Jul 9, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	34 min
Jul 9, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Wells	46 min
Jul 9, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman, Wells	37 min
Jul 9, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman, Wells	61 min
Jul 9, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton, Sioux	40 min
Jul 9, 9:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman, Wells	6 hr
Jul 9, 10:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Logan	41 min
Jul 9, 10:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Wells	39 min
Jul 9, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	60 min
Jul 9, 11:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Stutsman	6 hr
Jul 9, 11:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan, McIntosh	40 min
Jul 9, 11:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Golden Valley, Slope	49 min
Jul 9, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure, Stutsman	59 min
Jul 10, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Billings	57 min
Jul 10, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Stark	58 min
Jul 10, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Stark	58 min
Jul 10, 2:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Mercer, Oliver, Sheridan	60 min
Jul 10, 4:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Kidder	46 min
Jul 10, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Golden Valley	38 min
Jul 10, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie	56 min
Jul 10, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope	62 min
Jul 10, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn	64 min
Jul 10, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope	50 min
Jul 10, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie	42 min
Jul 10, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail, Ward	53 min
Jul 10, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Hettinger, Slope and 1 more	51 min
Jul 10, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie	41 min
Jul 10, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Billings, Dunn, Grant, Hettinger, Mercer and 5 more	54 min
Jul 10, 6:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burke	31 min

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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.