Alert archive / North Dakota / Winter Storm Warnings in 2024
Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this winter storm warning at Mar 23, 2024, 12:47 PM MDT for 23 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Mar 24, 2024, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 26 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
- Mar 23, 2024, 12:47 PM MDT (18:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 24, 2024, 12:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2024, 1:32 AM MDT
- In force
- 26 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
All 23 counties
Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 12:47 PM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey and 21 more | 61 hr |
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.