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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 28, 2023Bottineau County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2023, 3:22 PM CDT for Bottineau County, North Dakota. It was in force for 53 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: Jun 28, 2023, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2023, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Bottineau County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sheridan	36 min
Jun 27, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Oliver	27 min
Jun 27, 10:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Oliver	39 min
Jun 27, 10:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Mercer	4 hr
Jun 27, 11:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	McHenry	5 hr
Jun 28, 2:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Rolette	33 min
Jun 28, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sheridan	29 min
Jun 28, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Bottineau	30 min
Jun 28, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Rolette	34 min
Jun 28, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Rolette	47 min
Jun 28, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Rolette	29 min

Nearby

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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.