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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 14, 2020McKenzie County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jun 14, 2020, 2:08 PM CDT for McKenzie County, North Dakota. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2020, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2020, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

County McKenzie County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 1386 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Jun 14, 12:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 12:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 12:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:08 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
208 PM CDT Sun Jun 14 2020

NDZ017-142000-
McKenzie ND-
208 PM CDT Sun Jun 14 2020

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN MCKENZIE COUNTY
UNTIL 300 PM CDT/200 PM MDT/...

At 207 PM CDT/107 PM MDT/, a strong thunderstorm was located 15 miles
west of Grassy Butte, or 29 miles southwest of Watford City, moving
north at 45 mph.

Penny size hail and wind gusts to 50 mph will be possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Watford City, Alexander, Arnegard, Theodore Roosevelt National Park
North Unit and Rawson.

LAT...LON 4789 10364 4783 10311 4733 10333 4733 10380
TIME...MOT...LOC 1907Z 193DEG 40KT 4743 10357

MJONES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 3:31 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Dickey, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh and 4 more	17 hr
Jun 14, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	43 min
Jun 14, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman	43 min
Jun 14, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Golden Valley	17 min
Jun 14, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Golden Valley	55 min
Jun 14, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Hettinger	62 min
Jun 14, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	53 min
Jun 14, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Stark	40 min
Jun 14, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope	50 min
Jun 14, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie	15 min
Jun 14, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	65 min

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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.