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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 26, 2018Adams County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2018, 10:56 PM MDT for Adams 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 2018, 10:56 PM MDT (04:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2018, 11:27 PM MDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
2.5 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Adams County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:56 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 26, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2018-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 779 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2018-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 9:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 8:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 37 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, 2 hours 26 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, 2 hours 9 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 50 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 47 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

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 10:30 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 6:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWard47 min
Jun 26, 6:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISAdams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope, Stark64 min
Jun 26, 6:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau, McHenry34 min
Jun 26, 6:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDunn59 min
Jun 26, 7:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStark64 min
Jun 26, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMercer, Morton, Oliver58 min
Jun 26, 7:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISAdams57 min
Jun 26, 7:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMercer40 min
Jun 26, 7:47 PM MDTTornado WarningBISMorton28 min
Jun 26, 8:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMercer54 min
Jun 26, 9:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISSlope58 min
Jun 26, 9:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcHenry54 min
Jun 26, 9:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBowman57 min
Jun 26, 9:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Morton, Stark54 min
Jun 26, 10:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISAdams, Bowman66 min
Jun 26, 10:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Hettinger, Morton67 min
Jun 26, 10:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBowman25 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.