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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 25, 2021LaMoure County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 25, 2021, 10:59 PM CDT for LaMoure County, North Dakota. It was in force for 46 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
Jul 25, 2021, 10:59 PM CDT (03:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 2021, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

County LaMoure County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2021-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1771 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2021-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 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
1771 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2015 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
380 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
31.3

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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 Jul 25, 9:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 9:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 10:59 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
1059 PM CDT Sun Jul 25 2021

NDZ048-260445-
La Moure ND-
1059 PM CDT Sun Jul 25 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN LAMOURE COUNTY UNTIL
1145 PM CDT...

At 1059 PM CDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 8 miles southeast
of Marion, or 26 miles north of Oakes, moving east at 15 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Verona.

LAT...LON 4644 9833 4663 9831 4663 9804 4635 9803
      4635 9804
TIME...MOT...LOC 0359Z 283DEG 14KT 4651 9820

MJONES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 3:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISAdams30 min
Jul 26, 4:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISSioux32 min
Jul 26, 2:05 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryBISAdams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Dunn and 14 more31 hr
Jul 26, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISKidder, Logan, Stutsman33 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.