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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 14, 2024Ward County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2024, 10:45 PM CDT for Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 60 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 14, 2024, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2024, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Ward County, ND

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 14, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 2151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 7.2

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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 14, 9:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 9:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 9:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 14, 9:57 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 10:16 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 10:26 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 10:30 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 10:34 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 10:40 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	46 min
Jul 14, 7:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Williams	42 min
Jul 14, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	48 min
Jul 14, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce	65 min
Jul 14, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	66 min
Jul 14, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Mountrail, Williams	57 min
Jul 14, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	46 min
Jul 14, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	39 min
Jul 14, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mountrail	58 min
Jul 14, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Pierce	56 min
Jul 14, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	39 min
Jul 14, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Mountrail, Ward	63 min
Jul 14, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Pierce	56 min
Jul 14, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Mountrail, Ward	55 min
Jul 14, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce	45 min
Jul 14, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Renville	43 min
Jul 14, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Mountrail	38 min
Jul 14, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	McHenry, Pierce	35 min
Jul 14, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	McLean, Mountrail	40 min
Jul 14, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	50 min
Jul 14, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce, Sheridan, Wells	64 min
Jul 14, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	McLean, Mercer	42 min
Jul 15, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	28 min
Jul 15, 12:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Foster	42 min
Jul 15, 1:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	LaMoure	13 min
Jul 15, 1:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sheridan	34 min
Jul 15, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder, Sheridan, Wells	52 min
Jul 15, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Kidder, Stutsman	57 min
Jul 15, 2:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	35 min
Jul 15, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	LaMoure, Logan, Stutsman	45 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.