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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Bismarck, ND

November 16, 2016Dickey County, LaMoure County, McIntosh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this winter storm watch at Nov 16, 2016, 4:03 AM CST for Dickey County, LaMoure County, McIntosh County, North Dakota. It took effect at Nov 17, 2016, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 16, 2016, 4:03 AM CST (10:03 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 17, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Nov 17, 2016, 2:56 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Dickey County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, McIntosh County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2016-11-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2016-11-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.