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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 26, 2018Bowman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2018, 10:28 PM MDT for Bowman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2018, 10:28 PM MDT (04:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2018, 10:53 PM MDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Bowman County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 224 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 26, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 779 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 9:55 PM MDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 9:55 PM MDT, 33 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 8:16 PM MDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
916 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2018

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

0856 PM     TSTM WND DMG     GLEN ULLIN              46.82N 101.83W
06/26/2018                   MORTON             ND   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            SEVERAL LARGE TREES AND NUMEROUS BRANCHES
            DOWNED IN THE TOWN OF GLEN ULLIN. LAW
            ENFORCEMENT ESTIMATED 70 MPH WINDS.

&&

TWH

Local storm report, Jun 26, 8:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
919 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2018

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

0855 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST GLEN ULLIN RGNL         46.81N 101.86W
06/26/2018  M66 MPH          MORTON             ND   AWOS

            AWOS STATION D57, GLEN ULLIN RGNL.

&&

TWH

Local storm report, Jun 26, 8:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
930 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2018

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

0750 PM     HAIL             2 E MARSHALL            47.14N 102.28W
06/26/2018  M1.00 INCH       DUNN               ND   BROADCAST MEDIA

&&

Local storm report, Jun 26, 8:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
947 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2018

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

0855 PM     TSTM WND GST     GLEN ULLIN RGNL         46.81N 101.86W
06/26/2018  M66 MPH          MORTON             ND   AWOS

            CORRECTS PREVIOUS NON-TSTM WND GST REPORT
            FROM GLEN ULLIN RGNL. AWOS STATION D57, GLEN
            ULLIN RGNL.

&&

TWH

Local storm report, Jun 26, 9:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1006 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2018

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

0845 PM     HAIL             HETTINGER               46.00N 102.64W
06/26/2018  E1.25 INCH       ADAMS              ND   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            ADAMS COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORT. DROVE
            ND HIGHWAY 8 FROM HETTINGER TO THE SOUTH
            DAKOTA BORDER. HAD HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL IN
            HETTINGER, NEAR AIRPORT, AND HALF DOLLAR
            SIZE HAIL SCATTERED ON THE GROUND FROM
            HETTINGER TO THE STATE LINE SOUTH OF
            HETTINGER. RADAR ESTIMATE THIS HAIL WOULD
            HAVE FALLEN BETWEEN 845 PM AND 910 PM CDT.

&&

JP MARTIN

Local storm report, Jun 26, 9:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1009 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2018

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

0712 PM     HAIL             DICKINSON               46.88N 102.79W
06/26/2018  E1.00 INCH       STARK              ND   PUBLIC

&&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 6:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	47 min
Jun 26, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope, Stark	64 min
Jun 26, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	34 min
Jun 26, 6:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn	59 min
Jun 26, 7:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	64 min
Jun 26, 7:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Morton, Oliver	58 min
Jun 26, 7:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams	57 min
Jun 26, 7:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	40 min
Jun 26, 7:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton	28 min
Jun 26, 8:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	54 min
Jun 26, 9:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Slope	58 min
Jun 26, 9:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	54 min
Jun 26, 9:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	57 min
Jun 26, 9:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton, Stark	54 min
Jun 26, 10:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman	66 min
Jun 26, 10:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Hettinger, Morton	67 min
Jun 26, 10:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams	31 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.