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Snow Squall Warning 1, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this snow squall warning at Jan 17, 2025, 11:07 AM CST for Bottineau County, North Dakota. It was in force for 23 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
- Jan 17, 2025, 11:07 AM CST (17:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2025, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Significant
County Bottineau County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:07 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 1280 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow squall 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 snow squall warning went out at Jan 17, 10:10 AM CST, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 10:10 AM CST, 57 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 17, 10:12 AM CST, 55 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Bismarck ND 1012 AM CST Fri Jan 17 2025 NDZ017>020-031>035-040>048-050-051-181615- McKenzie-Dunn-Mercer-Oliver-Golden Valley-Billings-Stark-Morton- Burleigh-Slope-Hettinger-Grant-Bowman-Adams-Sioux-Emmons-Logan- La Moure-McIntosh-Dickey- 1012 AM CST Fri Jan 17 2025 /912 AM MST Fri Jan 17 2025/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of northwest North Dakota, south central North Dakota, southeast North Dakota, and southwest North Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight A Wind Advisory remains in effect through this evening. See weather.gov/bis for details. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday Life threatening wind chills are expected this weekend into early next week. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed. NDZ001>005-009>013-021>023-025-036-037-181615- Divide-Burke-Renville-Bottineau-Rolette-Williams-Mountrail-Ward- McHenry-Pierce-McLean-Sheridan-Wells-Foster-Kidder-Stutsman- 1012 AM CST Fri Jan 17 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of north central North Dakota, northwest North Dakota, south central North Dakota, and southeast North Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight A Winter Advisory is in effect through this evening. See weather.gov/bis for details. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday Life threatening wind chills are expected this weekend into early next week. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 17, 8:05 AM CST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Jan 17, 8:34 AM CST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
834 AM CST Fri Jan 17 2025
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0734 AM Non-Tstm Wnd Gst 2 NNW Robinson 47.17N 99.80W
01/17/2025 M60 MPH Kidder ND Mesonet
NDAWN Site.
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JAAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 10:01 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | BIS | Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Foster, Kidder, McHenry and 8 more | 10 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:27 PM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Grant and 6 more | 53 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:27 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more | 4 days |
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.