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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 6, 1991McLean County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1991, 6:22 PM CDT for McLean County, North Dakota. It was in force for 53 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: Jul 6, 1991, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1991, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County McLean County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 6, 6:50 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Mclean, 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, Jul 6, 1:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

NDZ001>014-060000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
455 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 1991

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

AT 450 PM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS EXTENDED
FROM 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINOT OR JUST SOUTHWEST OF WHITE SHIELD
TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK TO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK
NEAR RALEIGH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IN ADDITION
TO LAKE SAKAKAWEA SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS
INCLUDE BISMARCK/MANDAN...HAZEN/BEULAH...WASHBURN...WILTON AND BREIEN.

BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES.
JOBE

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:27 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

NDZ001-070000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
525 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 1991

...THUNDERSTORMS IN FAR NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA....

AT 515 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN WILLISTON INDICATED
A THUNDERSTORM 53 MILES NORTH OF WILLISTON...CENTERED OVER AMBROSE NORTH
DAKOTA.  THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKES.  MOVEMENT IS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS THROUGH CROSBY AND SOUTH OF NOONAN DURING
THE NEXT 60 MINUTES.

ALLARD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Oliver	29 min
Jul 6, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Oliver	48 min
Jul 6, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	36 min
Jul 6, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1991 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

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.