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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 9, 2017Foster County, Kidder County, Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2017, 1:22 PM CDT for Foster County, Kidder County, Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 38 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 9, 2017, 1:22 PM CDT (18:22 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2017, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Foster County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1264 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 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 Aug 9, 12:57 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 12:57 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 12:46 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 8:43 AM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 11:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1135 AM CDT WED AUG 9 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0555 PM     TSTM WND GST     1 NE BEACH              46.93N 103.98W
08/08/2017  M72 MPH          GOLDEN VALLEY      ND   AWOS

            AWOS STATION 20U, 1 ENE BEACH.

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 11:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1148 AM CDT WED AUG 9 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1100 AM     HEAVY RAIN       5 N BEACH               46.99N 104.00W
08/09/2017  M3.00 INCH       GOLDEN VALLEY      ND   PUBLIC

            24 HOUR TOTAL. FROM PREVIOUS EVENING STORMS.
            RELAYED VIA BROADCAST MEDIA.

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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 1:22 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
122 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2017

NDZ023-025-036-037-091900-
Wells ND-Kidder ND-Stutsman ND-Foster ND-
122 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2017

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN WELLS...KIDDER...
FOSTER AND STUTSMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM CDT...

At 119 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Woodworth, or 19 miles north of Medina, moving east at 10 mph. Other
strong storms were developing across Kidder, Stutsman, Foster, and
southern Wells counties in central North Dakota. The stronger storms
were mainly north of I-94, but showers and thunderstorms are
expected to continue to develop through the afternoon.

Half inch hail and wind gusts to 50 mph will be possible with the
stronger storms.

Locations impacted include...
Jamestown, Carrington, Steele, Medina, Tappen, Kensal, Glenfield,
Buchanan, Spiritwood Lake, Cleveland, Tuttle, Bordulac, Spiritwood,
Pettibone, Dawson, Pingree, Woodworth, Courtenay, Robinson and Lake
Isabel.

LAT...LON 4673 10005 4735 10002 4758 9853 4688 9847
TIME...MOT...LOC 1819Z 283DEG 10KT 4718 9930

VINING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 9:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mountrail	16 min
Aug 8, 10:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mountrail	34 min
Aug 9, 12:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Renville	45 min
Aug 9, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	38 min
Aug 9, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	44 min
Aug 9, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	53 min
Aug 9, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	34 min
Aug 9, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Kidder	49 min
Aug 9, 4:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	21 min
Aug 9, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McIntosh	44 min
Aug 9, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey	30 min
Aug 9, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey	34 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Dakota, 2017 Every special weather statement in 2017

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.