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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 11, 2016Morton County, Sioux County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 11, 2016, 4:03 PM CDT for Morton County, Sioux County, North Dakota. It was in force for 42 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 11, 2016, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2016, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Morton County, ND, Sioux County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -53 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 11, 3:48 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 3:48 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 3:52 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 1:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
109 PM CDT MON JUL 11 2016

NDZ047-050-111845-
MCINTOSH ND-LOGAN ND-
109 PM CDT MON JUL 11 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT LOGAN AND NORTHWESTERN MCINTOSH
COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM CDT...

AT 109 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9
MILES SOUTHWEST OF WISHEK...OR 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHLEY...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WISHEK...GACKLE...LEHR...BEAVER LAKE STATE PARK AND BURNSTAD.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 4611 9988 4624 9988 4662 9967 4663 9904
      4662 9904 4632 9920 4607 9978
TIME...MOT...LOC 1809Z 218DEG 50KT 4620 9974

ABELING

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 2:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
156 PM MDT MON JUL 11 2016

NDZ042-112030-
GRANT ND-
156 PM MDT MON JUL 11 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY UNTIL
230 PM MDT...

AT 156 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
ELGIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ELGIN...CARSON...NEW LEIPZIG...HEART BUTTE DAM...LARK...
LEITH AND HEIL.

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

&&

LAT...LON 4626 10200 4628 10200 4628 10201 4640 10205
      4643 10205 4672 10176 4672 10172 4663 10171
      4663 10155 4646 10129 4646 10130 4620 10198
TIME...MOT...LOC 1956Z 229DEG 34KT 4636 10188

HARGROVE

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 3:10 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
310 PM CDT MON JUL 11 2016

NDZ034-042-045-112100-
MORTON ND-SIOUX ND-GRANT ND-
310 PM CDT MON JUL 11 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN GRANT...CENTRAL SIOUX
AND SOUTHEASTERN MORTON COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT/300 PM MDT/...

AT 310 PM CDT/210 PM MDT/...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF SHIELDS...OR 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF
SELFRIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FLASHER...SHIELDS...RALEIGH...PORCUPINE...BREIEN AND ST. GERTRUDE.

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

&&

LAT...LON 4601 10131 4607 10156 4670 10124 4652 10069
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 202DEG 27KT 4626 10131

HARGROVE

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 3:36 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 3:49 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:03 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 10, 7:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Stark	3 hr
Jul 10, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burke	49 min
Jul 10, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Morton, Sioux, Stark	58 min
Jul 10, 7:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	47 min
Jul 10, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	65 min
Jul 10, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Morton, Sioux	62 min
Jul 10, 8:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	3 hr
Jul 10, 8:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McHenry, McLean, Sheridan	51 min
Jul 10, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Renville	40 min
Jul 10, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, Morton and 1 more	56 min
Jul 10, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Pierce, Sheridan, Wells	44 min
Jul 10, 10:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh	19 hr
Jul 10, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Sheridan, Wells	57 min
Jul 10, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman	34 min
Jul 10, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh and 1 more	61 min
Jul 10, 11:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	3 hr
Jul 10, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman	67 min
Jul 10, 11:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	32 min
Jul 11, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	63 min
Jul 11, 12:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	43 min
Jul 11, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	63 min
Jul 11, 12:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	32 min
Jul 11, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Sioux	65 min
Jul 11, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	35 min
Jul 11, 1:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Logan	35 min
Jul 11, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	55 min
Jul 11, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Morton, Sioux	23 min
Jul 11, 2:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey	44 min
Jul 11, 2:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan, McIntosh	64 min
Jul 11, 3:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure, McIntosh	45 min
Jul 11, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons	32 min
Jul 11, 4:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Logan	24 min
Jul 11, 4:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	24 min
Jul 11, 5:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Logan	27 min
Jul 11, 7:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	3 hr
Jul 11, 10:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Dickey	27 hr
Jul 11, 1:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	36 min
Jul 11, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	34 min
Jul 11, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sioux	50 min
Jul 11, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Morton	24 min
Jul 11, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Morton	41 min
Jul 11, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sioux	47 min
Jul 11, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Kidder, Logan	48 min
Jul 11, 5:37 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 3 more	4 hr
Jul 11, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Wells	24 min
Jul 11, 6:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Foster, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman, Wells	44 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.