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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 31, 1987Billings County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1987, 4:17 PM MDT for Billings County, North Dakota. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 31, 1987, 4:17 PM MDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 1987, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Billings County, ND

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 31, 10:17 AM MDT, 6 hours before
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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 3:13 PM MDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
415 PM CDT FRI JUL 31 1987

...PACIFIC COOL FRONT TO BRING SOME RELIEF TO NORTH DAKOTA SATURDAY...

A COOL FRONT NOW OVER WESTERN MONTANA IS EXPECTED TO MOVE RAPIDLY
EASTWARD TONIGHT...AND REACH WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA SATURDAY MORNING.
THIS FRONT SHOULD MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS NORTH DAKOTA SATURDAY...AND
THROUGH THE ENTIRE STATE BY SATURDAY NIGHT.

WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS FRONT...DRIER NORTHWEST WINDS WILL LESSEN
THE HUMIDITIES SOMEWHAT...HOWEVER MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES SATURDAY WILL
STILL BE IN THE MID 80S TO NEAR 90 OVER WEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.

IN THE EAST...SATURDAY WILL BE HOT AND HUMID WITH TEMPERATURES REACHING
THE LOW TO MID 90S...AND NO RELIEF IS EXPECTED THERE UNTIL SATURDAY
NIGHT.

IN THE MEANTIME...WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE STATEWIDE
THROUGH TONIGHT...AND ALL PERSONS SHOULD CONTINUE TO TAKE PROTECTIVE
MEASURES FROM THE HEAT STRESSf.
RCM

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.