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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 2, 2019Emmons County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2019, 6:57 PM CDT for Emmons County, North Dakota. It was in force for 24 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: Jul 2, 2019, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2019, 7:21 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Emmons County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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
Jul 2, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1177 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Jul 2, 5:57 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 5:57 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 6:00 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 5:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
500 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2019

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

0440 PM     HAIL             2 N HAVELOCK            46.50N 102.74W
07/02/2019  M1.75 INCH       HETTINGER          ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            FEW GOLF BALL, LOTS OF DIME TO NICKLE SIZE
            HAIL.

&&

Local storm report, Jul 2, 5:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
502 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2019

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

0453 PM     HAIL             3 SSE HAVELOCK          46.43N 102.72W
07/02/2019  E1.75 INCH       HETTINGER          ND   PUBLIC

            LARGEST HAILSTONES WERE ESTIMATED TO BE PING
            PONG TO GOLF BALL SIZE.

&&

MH

Local storm report, Jul 2, 5:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
511 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2019

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

0428 PM     HAIL             SELFRIDGE               46.04N 100.93W
07/02/2019  E1.00 INCH       SIOUX              ND   PUBLIC

            HAIL LASTED FROM 4:28 TO 4:33 PM. LARGEST
            WAS QUARTER SIZE.

&&

MH

Local storm report, Jul 2, 5:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 2, 6:24 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 6:46 PM CDT, 11 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
Jul 1, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Divide	43 min
Jul 1, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	61 min
Jul 1, 10:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burke	42 min
Jul 1, 10:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie	35 min
Jul 1, 11:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Renville	40 min
Jul 2, 1:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dunn	40 min
Jul 2, 2:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McLean	48 min
Jul 2, 2:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	48 min
Jul 2, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Slope	58 min
Jul 2, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	61 min
Jul 2, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	52 min
Jul 2, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sioux	43 min
Jul 2, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Hettinger	35 min
Jul 2, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Golden Valley, Slope	63 min
Jul 2, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger	62 min
Jul 2, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Slope	53 min
Jul 2, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton, Sioux	19 min
Jul 2, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	61 min
Jul 2, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant	18 min
Jul 2, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Billings	44 min
Jul 2, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	51 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.