Alert archive / North Dakota / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Aug 18, 2016, 1:07 AM CDT for Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 23 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
- Aug 18, 2016, 1:07 AM CDT (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2016, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
County Ward County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2209 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted.
639 WWUS83 KBIS 180607 SPSBIS SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 107 AM CDT THU AUG 18 2016 NDZ003-011-012-180630- MCHENRY ND-WARD ND-RENVILLE ND- 107 AM CDT THU AUG 18 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN RENVILLE...WEST CENTRAL MCHENRY AND EAST CENTRAL WARD COUNTIES UNTIL 130 AM CDT... AT 107 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN MINOT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MINOT...MINOT AIR FORCE BASE...BURLINGTON...SURREY...DEERING... NORWICH...LOGAN...SIMCOE AND WOLSETH. LAT...LON 4812 10132 4835 10157 4853 10113 4815 10084 TIME...MOT...LOC 0607Z 243DEG 25KT 4824 10129 $$ SCHILD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 7:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Divide | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 8:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Burke | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Renville, Ward | 64 min |
| Aug 17, 10:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Renville | 55 min |
| Aug 17, 11:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Renville | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 12:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Renville | 40 min |
| Aug 18, 12:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Renville | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 1:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Billings | 41 min |
| Aug 18, 1:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Renville | 29 min |
| Aug 18, 2:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Divide | 24 min |
| Aug 18, 3:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Wells | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 3:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Wells | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 4:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Wells | 26 min |
| Aug 18, 5:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Stutsman | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 6:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Stutsman | 65 min |
| Aug 18, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey, LaMoure, Stutsman | 60 min |
| Aug 18, 7:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey, LaMoure | 52 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.