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Fire Weather Watch 16, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this fire weather watch at Sep 14, 2021, 12:20 PM MDT for 11 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Sep 15, 2021, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 2021, 12:20 PM MDT (18:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 15, 2021, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2021, 2:14 AM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
Counties Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Williams County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Sep 13, 5:54 PM MDT, 18 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 5:54 PM MDT, 18 hours 26 minutes before
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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.