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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 26, 2016McIntosh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2016, 3:55 AM CDT for McIntosh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 50 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 26, 2016, 3:55 AM CDT (08:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2016, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County McIntosh County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -225 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 278 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 26, 3:30 AM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 3:30 AM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 3:29 AM CDT, 26 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
329 AM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-270830-
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-
329 AM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016 /229 AM MDT TUE JUL 26 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED. ISOLATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE IS A DAILY CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

KS

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 3:55 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
355 AM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016

NDZ050-260945-
MCINTOSH-
355 AM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016

...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL MCINTOSH
COUNTY UNTIL 445 AM CDT...

AT 355 AM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CLUSTERED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF WISHEK...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHLEY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WISHEK...LEHR...DANZIG AND GREEN LAKE.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE MINOR FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

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

LAT...LON 4601 9978 4623 9982 4628 9952 4628 9908
      4610 9903
TIME...MOT...LOC 0855Z 259DEG 24KT 4617 9963

SIMOSKO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 2:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	26 min
Jul 26, 2:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	25 min
Jul 26, 4:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	McIntosh	3 hr
Jul 26, 8:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McIntosh	38 min
Jul 26, 9:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McIntosh	44 min
Jul 26, 12:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey	49 min
Jul 26, 1:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	33 min
Jul 26, 1:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Rolette	41 min
Jul 26, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	24 min
Jul 26, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton, Sioux	51 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.