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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Bismarck, ND

February 28, 202310 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this winter storm warning at Feb 28, 2023, 1:51 AM CST for 10 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Feb 28, 2023, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 28, 2023, 1:51 AM CST (07:51 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 28, 2023, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Mar 1, 2023, 12:00 PM CST
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Grant County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:56 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 218 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 2023-02-28Temperature 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2023-02-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -68 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.