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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2024, 5:39 PM CDT for Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 28, 2024, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2024, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Morton County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 45 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 28, 5:36 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 5:36 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 28, 4:48 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Bismarck ND 448 PM CDT Wed Aug 28 2024 NDZ019>023-025-034>037-042-045>048-050-051-292200- Mercer-Oliver-McLean-Sheridan-Wells-Foster-Morton-Burleigh-Kidder- Stutsman-Grant-Sioux-Emmons-Logan-La Moure-McIntosh-Dickey- 448 PM CDT Wed Aug 28 2024 /348 PM MDT Wed Aug 28 2024/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of south central North Dakota and southeast North Dakota. .DAY ONE...Tonight Numerous severe thunderstorms are possible late this afternoon through this evening. Possible hazards include damaging wind gusts to 70 mph, large hail up to the size of a tennis ball, and a tornado or two. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed this evening. Please report any severe weather to the National Weather Service in Bismarck at 1-800-247-0212. NDZ002>005-010>013-018-033-041-044-292200- Burke-Renville-Bottineau-Rolette-Mountrail-Ward-McHenry-Pierce- Dunn-Stark-Hettinger-Adams- 448 PM CDT Wed Aug 28 2024 /348 PM MDT Wed Aug 28 2024/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of north central North Dakota, northwest North Dakota, and southwest North Dakota. .DAY ONE...Tonight Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms are possible late this afternoon through this evening. Possible hazards include damaging wind gusts to 70 mph, large hail up to the size of a tennis ball, and a tornado or two. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed this evening. Please report any severe weather to the National Weather Service in Bismarck at 1-800-247-0212. NDZ001-009-017-031-032-040-043-292200- Divide-Williams-McKenzie-Golden Valley-Billings-Slope-Bowman- 448 PM CDT Wed Aug 28 2024 /348 PM MDT Wed Aug 28 2024/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of northwest North Dakota and southwest North Dakota. .DAY ONE...Tonight Thunderstorms are possible for portions of the area tonight. Severe weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 5:53 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BIS | Bottineau, Dickey, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 28, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Sioux | 61 min |
| Aug 28, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Sioux | 58 min |
| Aug 28, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Sioux | 25 min |
| Aug 28, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Sioux | 50 min |
| Aug 28, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Sioux | 66 min |
| Aug 28, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton | 65 min |
| Aug 28, 6:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Sioux | 6 hr |
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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.