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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 15, 2024Hettinger County, Slope County, Stark County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2024, 6:05 PM MDT for Hettinger County, Slope County, Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 40 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: Jun 15, 2024, 6:05 PM MDT (00:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2024, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Hettinger County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 2002 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1744 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.7

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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 Jun 15, 5:45 PM MDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 5:45 PM MDT, 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 4:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
406 PM MDT Sat Jun 15 2024

NDZ033-040-152230-
Stark ND-Slope ND-
406 PM MDT Sat Jun 15 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHEASTERN SLOPE AND
SOUTHWESTERN STARK COUNTIES THROUGH 430 PM MDT...

At 406 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 12
miles southwest of South Heart, or 20 miles southwest of Dickinson,
moving northeast at 35 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
South Heart and Dickinson Regional Airport.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 4663 10323 4671 10321 4693 10305 4688 10288
      4677 10272 4653 10314
TIME...MOT...LOC 2206Z 226DEG 28KT 4670 10311

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

HARGROVE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 6:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Stark	49 min
Jun 15, 7:23 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Stark	37 min
Jun 15, 7:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Grant, Hettinger, Morton, Stark	57 min
Jun 15, 8:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Divide, McKenzie, Williams	57 min
Jun 15, 8:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Grant, Morton	46 min
Jun 15, 8:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	62 min
Jun 15, 9:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Burke, Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail, Williams	58 min
Jun 15, 9:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	53 min
Jun 15, 10:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Burke, Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail, Renville, Ward and 1 more	65 min
Jun 15, 10:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mountrail	60 min
Jun 15, 10:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Mountrail, Renville, Ward	54 min
Jun 15, 10:53 PM MDT	High Wind Warning	BIS	Burke, Divide, Mountrail, Williams	3 hr
Jun 15, 11:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer	43 min
Jun 15, 11:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce, Renville, Rolette, Ward	54 min
Jun 16, 12:36 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	54 min
Jun 16, 1:51 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Divide and 15 more	16 hr
Jun 16, 2:56 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.