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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Bismarck, ND

October 16, 20245 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this red flag warning at Oct 16, 2024, 1:58 PM CDT for 5 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Oct 17, 2024, 8:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 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
Oct 16, 2024, 1:58 PM CDT (18:58 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 17, 2024, 8:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 17, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Dickey County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 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 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 12:00Z on 2024-10-16Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2024-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
294 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.