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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2019, 7:43 AM CDT for Pierce County, Rolette County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 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 29, 2019, 7:43 AM CDT (12:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2019, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Pierce County, ND, Rolette County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:47 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 29, 6:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 29, 7:27 AM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 7:27 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Bismarck ND 728 AM CDT Sat Jun 29 2019 NDZ031>034-040>045-301230- Golden Valley-Billings-Stark-Morton-Slope-Hettinger-Grant-Bowman- Adams-Sioux- 728 AM CDT Sat Jun 29 2019 /628 AM MDT Sat Jun 29 2019/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of south central North Dakota and southwest North Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Thunderstorms are possible today. A few of these storms could be severe. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday Near daily chances of thunderstorm will remain in the forecast through Friday. The chance for severe storms appear low at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated. NDZ001>005-009>013-017-301230- Divide-Burke-Renville-Bottineau-Rolette-Williams-Mountrail-Ward- McHenry-Pierce-McKenzie- 728 AM CDT Sat Jun 29 2019 /628 AM MDT Sat Jun 29 2019/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of north central North Dakota and northwest North Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Thunderstorms, possibly severe, will continue through the early morning hours. These storms could produce golf ball size hail. Additional thunderstorms are possible later today. These storms could produce damaging winds near 70 mph and golf ball size hail, and possibly a tornado. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday Near daily chances of thunderstorm will remain in the forecast through Friday. The chance for severe storms appear low at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed late tonight and Saturday across northwest and north central North Dakota. NDZ018>022-301230- Dunn-Mercer-Oliver-McLean-Sheridan- 728 AM CDT Sat Jun 29 2019 /628 AM MDT Sat Jun 29 2019/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of south central North Dakota and southwest North Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight There is a chance of thunderstorms today. Thunderstorms this morning could produce quarter sized hail. Storms that develop this afternoon could produce golf ball sized hail and winds to 70 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday Near daily chances of thunderstorm will remain in the forecast through Friday. The chance for severe storms appear low at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed Saturday across south central North Dakota and the James River Valley. NDZ023-025-035>037-046>048-050-051-301230- Wells-Foster-Burleigh-Kidder-Stutsman-Emmons-Logan-La Moure- McIntosh-Dickey- 728 AM CDT Sat Jun 29 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of south central North Dakota and southeast North Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight A Heat Advisory is in effect for this afternoon. See www.weather.gov/bis for more information. Isolated severe thunderstorms are possible across south central North Dakota and the James River Valley today. Any storms that do form could produce large hail to two inches in diameter, damaging winds near 70 mph, and potentially a tornado. Uncertainty is high whether storms will be able to form given how warm it will be on Saturday. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday Near daily chances of thunderstorm will remain in the forecast through Friday. The chance for severe storms appear low at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed Saturday across south central North Dakota and the James River Valley.
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Divide | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 3:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Burke, Divide, Mountrail, Williams | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, Williams | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 3:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Williams | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail, Ward | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 5:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Renville, Ward | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 6:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Renville, Ward | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 6:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Mountrail | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Pierce, Rolette | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 7:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Mountrail, Ward | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 8:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Wells | 40 min |
| Jun 29, 8:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Bottineau | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 9:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Foster, Wells | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 9:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Foster, Stutsman | 43 min |
| Jun 29, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 10:16 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | BIS | Pierce, Rolette | 104 min |
| Jun 29, 10:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Stutsman | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 11:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Rolette | 39 min |
| Jun 29, 2:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Divide | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 37 min |
| Jun 29, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Divide | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stark | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019
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.