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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Bismarck, ND

April 2, 202114 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this fire weather watch at Apr 2, 2021, 8:44 PM CDT for 14 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Apr 3, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 2, 2021, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 3, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Apr 3, 2021, 3:08 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grant County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Morton County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 377 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2021-04-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2021-04-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 3, 3:08 AM CDTRed Flag WarningBISAdams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 30 more18 hr

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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.