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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Bismarck, ND

September 12, 202412 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this red flag warning at Sep 12, 2024, 1:09 AM MDT for 12 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Sep 12, 2024, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 8 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
Sep 12, 2024, 1:09 AM MDT (07:09 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 12, 2024, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired
Sep 12, 2024, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:11 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 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2024-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 910 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2024-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 309 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
910 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-375 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1430 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
309 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
504 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Sep 11, 11:53 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 11:53 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 11, 8:02 PM MDTWind AdvisoryBISAdams, Burleigh, Dickey, Dunn, Emmons, Foster and 15 more26 hr
Sep 12, 5:17 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBISMountrail28 min
Sep 12, 5:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBISMountrail26 min
Sep 12, 5:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBISHettinger, Stark23 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.