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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Bismarck, ND

December 18, 20249 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this winter storm warning at Dec 18, 2024, 9:57 AM CST for 9 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Dec 18, 2024, 3:00 PM CST. It was in force for 27 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: Dec 18, 2024, 9:57 AM CST (15:57 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 18, 2024, 3:00 PM CST
Expired: Dec 19, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 27 hr
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Bottineau County, ND, Burke County, ND, Divide County, ND, Foster County, ND, McHenry County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:02 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 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 18, 6:18 AM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 18, 6:18 AM CST, 3 hours 39 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
Dec 18, 2:44 AM CST	High Wind Watch	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Grant, Hettinger and 2 more	11 hr
Dec 18, 2:57 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	Billings, Burleigh, Dickey, Divide, Dunn, Emmons and 17 more	39 hr
Dec 18, 2:04 PM CST	High Wind Warning	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Grant, Hettinger and 2 more	24 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.