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Wind Chill Advisory 19, NWS Bismarck, ND

December 28, 201810 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 28, 2018, 1:57 PM CST for 10 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Dec 28, 2018, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 28, 2018, 1:57 PM CST (19:57 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 28, 2018, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 29, 2018, 9:00 AM CST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Dickey County, ND, Foster County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 256 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2018-12-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2018-12-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 27, 10:02 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryBISBottineau, Burleigh, Foster, Kidder, McHenry, Pierce and 4 more14 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in North Dakota, 2018Every wind chill advisory 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.