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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 28, 2018Burleigh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2018, 2:52 AM CDT for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 53 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 28, 2018, 2:52 AM CDT (07:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2018, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Burleigh County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 29 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: 2452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 28, 12:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 12:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 12:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:30 AM CDT, 22 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 2:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Morton	45 min
Jun 28, 3:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mercer	28 min
Jun 28, 5:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Bowman	52 min
Jun 28, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Slope	63 min
Jun 28, 6:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Slope	49 min
Jun 28, 7:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman	58 min
Jun 28, 8:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Sioux	60 min
Jun 28, 8:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Sioux	64 min
Jun 28, 9:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	47 min
Jun 28, 10:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Hettinger	53 min
Jun 28, 2:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	BIS	Billings, Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley and 10 more	14 hr
Jun 28, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	43 min
Jun 28, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	23 min
Jun 28, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2018 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2018

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.