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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 14, 2017Stark County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2017, 3:59 PM MDT for Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 31 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 14, 2017, 3:59 PM MDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2017, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 1443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 14, 3:01 AM MDT	Heat Advisory	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dunn, Golden Valley and 9 more	16 hr
Jul 14, 1:51 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Grant and 8 more	22 hr
Jul 14, 2:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Pierce	28 min
Jul 14, 2:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Ward	24 min
Jul 14, 2:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mercer	46 min
Jul 14, 3:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McLean	41 min
Jul 14, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	61 min
Jul 14, 3:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Ward	43 min
Jul 14, 4:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, McLean, Sheridan, Ward	43 min
Jul 14, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver, Sheridan	60 min
Jul 14, 4:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Adams	36 min
Jul 14, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Oliver	60 min
Jul 14, 5:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	49 min
Jul 14, 5:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	44 min
Jul 14, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton	51 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.