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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 16, 2024Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2024, 1:36 AM CDT for Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 54 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 16, 2024, 1:36 AM CDT (06:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2024, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Burleigh County, ND, Morton County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:39 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 15, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 16 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 16, 12:44 AM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 12:44 AM CDT, 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 12:43 AM CDT, 53 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
1243 AM CDT Sun Jun 16 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1229 AM     Tstm Wnd Gst     6 NNE Golden Valley     47.37N 102.04W
06/16/2024  M74 MPH          Mercer             ND   Public

            Measured wind gust from personal weather
            station.

&&

MEJ

Local storm report, Jun 16, 12:54 AM CDT, 42 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
1254 AM CDT Sun Jun 16 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1246 AM     Tstm Wnd Gst     8 WSW Pick City         47.47N 101.61W
06/16/2024  M61 MPH          Mercer             ND   Mesonet

            10 meter measured wind gust from NDAWN
            station Pick City 8SW.

&&

MEJ

Local storm report, Jun 16, 12:59 AM CDT, 37 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
1259 AM CDT Sun Jun 16 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1237 AM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     2 S Minot               48.20N 101.31W
06/16/2024                   Ward               ND   Public

            Report from mPING: 1-inch tree limbs broken;
            Shingles blown off.

&&

MEJ

Local storm report, Jun 16, 1:04 AM CDT, 32 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
104 AM CDT Sun Jun 16 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0828 PM     Hail             12 ESE Lefor            46.63N 102.33W
06/15/2024  M1.50 Inch       Stark              ND   Public

            Photo relayed through social media.

&&

MEJ

Local storm report, Jun 16, 1:05 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
105 AM CDT Sun Jun 16 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1243 AM     Hail             6 WNW Mohall            48.79N 101.63W
06/16/2024  E1.00 Inch       Renville           ND   Public

            Accompanied by strong winds and heavy rain.

&&

JGA

Local storm report, Jun 16, 1:31 AM CDT, 5 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
131 AM CDT Sun Jun 16 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1230 AM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     Minot                   48.23N 101.29W
06/16/2024                   Ward               ND   Public

            Photo of large tree branch down in street
            relayed through broadcast media. Time
            estimated from radar.

&&

MEJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Slope, Stark	40 min
Jun 15, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Stark	49 min
Jun 15, 8:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Stark	37 min
Jun 15, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Grant, Hettinger, Morton, Stark	57 min
Jun 15, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Divide, McKenzie, Williams	57 min
Jun 15, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Grant, Morton	46 min
Jun 15, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	62 min
Jun 15, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Burke, Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail, Williams	58 min
Jun 15, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	53 min
Jun 15, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Burke, Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail, Renville, Ward and 1 more	65 min
Jun 15, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mountrail	60 min
Jun 15, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Mountrail, Renville, Ward	54 min
Jun 15, 11:53 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	BIS	Burke, Divide, Mountrail, Williams	3 hr
Jun 16, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer	43 min
Jun 16, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce, Renville, Rolette, Ward	54 min
Jun 16, 2:51 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Divide and 15 more	16 hr
Jun 16, 3:56 AM CDT	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.