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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 16, 1987Grant County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1987, 7:32 PM MDT for Grant County, North Dakota. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 1987, 7:32 PM MDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1987, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Grant County, ND

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 16, 8:15 PM MDTHail 0.75Grant, ND

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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, Jun 16, 2:45 PM MDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
340 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1987

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

AT 330 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES WEST OF DICKINSON NORTHWEST TO 35 MILES NORTH
OF DICKINSON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF DICKINSON.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN DUNN COUNTY BY 4 PM CDT.
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE NEW HRADEC.

HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL
IS POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM.

THE AIR REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE OVER NORTH DAKOTA AND ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY BECOME SEVERE ARE LIKELY OVER THE
WEST AND CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE THIS EVENING.
LEBLANG
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:49 PM MDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
450 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1987

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA...

AT 440 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR DETECTED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER
WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA INTO NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN DUNN COUNTY OF NORTH DAKOTA
30 MILES NORTHEAST OF DICKINSON.

HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL
IS POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM.

THE AIR REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE OVER NORTH DAKOTA AND ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY BECOME SEVERE ARE LIKELY OVER THE
WEST AND CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
600 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1987

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA...

AT 550 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECTED SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA INTO NORTHWEST SOUTH
DAKOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN WESTERN BOWMAN COUNTY...60
MILES SOUTHWEST OF DICKINSON.

BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL
ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

THE AIR REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE OVER NORTH DAKOTA AND ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY BECOME SEVERE ARE LIKELY OVER THE
WESTB AND CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 6:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISStark61 min
Jun 16, 6:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDunn44 min
Jun 16, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean, Ward58 min
Jun 16, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMercer58 min
Jun 16, 7:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie47 min
Jun 16, 8:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean37 min
Jun 16, 8:21 PM MDTTornado WarningBISMcLean, Ward24 min
Jun 16, 9:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons57 min
Jun 16, 9:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.