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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2022, 8:49 PM CDT for 4 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2022, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2022, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 2.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Bottineau County, ND, McHenry County, ND, Renville County, ND, Ward County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 772 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 431 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 22, 2:18 PM CDT, 6 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:18 PM CDT, 6 hours 31 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 22, 5:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Burke, Renville | 66 min |
| Jul 22, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Renville, Ward | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McHenry, Renville, Ward | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce, Rolette | 63 min |
| Jul 22, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce, Wells | 43 min |
| Jul 22, 11:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Foster | 33 min |
| Jul 23, 3:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Grant, Sioux | 37 min |
| Jul 23, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton, Sioux | 43 min |
| Jul 23, 4:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Emmons | 27 min |
| Jul 23, 5:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Emmons | 23 min |
| Jul 23, 5:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, McIntosh | 52 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.