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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 8, 2019Emmons County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2019, 7:13 PM CDT for Emmons County, North Dakota. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2019, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2019, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County Emmons County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 70 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.

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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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -584 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 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 special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 8, 7:12 PM CDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 7:12 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 5:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
512 PM CDT Mon Jul 8 2019

NDZ005-012-013-019>023-033>036-041-042-044>047-050-092215-
Rolette-McHenry-Pierce-Mercer-Oliver-McLean-Sheridan-Wells-Stark-
Morton-Burleigh-Kidder-Hettinger-Grant-Adams-Sioux-Emmons-Logan-
McIntosh-
512 PM CDT Mon Jul 8 2019 /412 PM MDT Mon Jul 8 2019/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of north central
North Dakota, south central North Dakota, southeast North Dakota,
and southwest North Dakota.

.DAY ONE...Tonight

Severe thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening. A
few tornadoes, large hail up to tennis ball size, and damaging
wind gusts up to 70 mph are all possible along with the very heavy
rain. A Flash Flood Watch is in effect until Tuesday morning.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday

Thunderstorms are forecast for Tuesday, Thursday night, and over
the coming weekend.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Weather spotters will be needed from later this afternoon and at
least until midnight tonight. Report all tornadoes, hail, storm
wind gusts of 40 mph or higher, any pooling of rain water, and
rain amounts to your National Weather Service in Bismarck. More
experienced spotters should report information related to storm
structure as well.

NDZ001>004-009>011-017-018-025-031-032-037-040-043-048-051-092215-
Divide-Burke-Renville-Bottineau-Williams-Mountrail-Ward-McKenzie-
Dunn-Foster-Golden Valley-Billings-Stutsman-Slope-Bowman-La Moure-
Dickey-
512 PM CDT Mon Jul 8 2019 /412 PM MDT Mon Jul 8 2019/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of north central
North Dakota, northwest North Dakota, southeast North Dakota, and
southwest North Dakota.

.DAY ONE...Tonight

Severe thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening. A
few tornadoes, large hail up to tennis ball size, and damaging
wind gusts up to 70 mph are all possible along with the very heavy
rain. The greatest potential is across southwest and central North
Dakota.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday

Thunderstorms are forecast for Tuesday, Thursday night, and over
the coming weekend.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Weather spotters will be needed from later this afternoon and at
least until midnight tonight. Report all tornadoes, hail, storm
wind gusts of 40 mph or higher, any pooling of rain water, and
rain amounts to your National Weather Service in Bismarck. More
experienced spotters should report information related to storm
structure as well.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 8, 6:37 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 8, 6:50 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 8, 7:03 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 8, 7:05 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 8, 7:08 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
708 PM CDT MON JUL 8 2019

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

0655 PM     TSTM WND GST     5 ENE EDMUNDS           47.26N 98.86W
07/08/2019  M56 MPH          STUTSMAN           ND   MESONET

            REPORTED BY ARROW WOOD NATIONAL WILDLIFE
            REFUGE RAWS SITE. TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR.

&&

AE

Special weather statement, Jul 8, 7:13 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
713 PM CDT Mon Jul 8 2019

NDZ045>047-090100-
Sioux ND-Logan ND-Emmons ND-
713 PM CDT Mon Jul 8 2019

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN SIOUX...
WEST CENTRAL LOGAN AND CENTRAL EMMONS COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CDT...

At 712 PM CDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 10 miles south of Braddock to 8 miles southeast of
Selfridge. Movement was east at 10 mph.

Penny size hail and wind gusts to 50 mph will be possible with these
storms.

Locations impacted include...
Linton, Fort Yates, Temvik, Cattail Recreation Area and Beaver Bay
Recreation Area.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CDT for
south central and southeastern North Dakota.

LAT...LON 4595 10107 4647 10018 4646 9967 4594 10050
TIME...MOT...LOC 0012Z 265DEG 9KT 4642 10007 4596 10080

MJONES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 8:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	3 hr
Jul 8, 9:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	3 hr
Jul 8, 10:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	6 hr
Jul 8, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope	47 min
Jul 8, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley, Slope	27 min
Jul 8, 11:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Bowman, Slope	39 min
Jul 9, 1:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Adams, Hettinger	47 min
Jul 9, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant, Hettinger	44 min
Jul 9, 3:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant, Morton, Sioux	44 min
Jul 9, 1:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	BIS	Emmons	38 hr
Jul 9, 1:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Dunn, McHenry, McKenzie and 6 more	9 hr
Jul 9, 3:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	LaMoure	19 hr
Jul 9, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	LaMoure	33 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Dakota, 2019 Every special weather statement 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.