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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 2, 1996Dunn County, Mountrail County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1996, 6:58 PM MDT for Dunn County, Mountrail County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 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: Aug 2, 1996, 6:58 PM MDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 1996, 7:30 PM MDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dunn County, ND, Mountrail County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, Aug 2, 4:26 PM MDT, 2 hours 32 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
Aug 2, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Slope, Stark	64 min
Aug 2, 6:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	62 min
Aug 2, 7:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke	65 min
Aug 2, 7:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Morton	67 min
Aug 2, 7:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton	59 min
Aug 2, 7:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant	45 min
Aug 2, 8:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton	56 min
Aug 2, 9:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan, McIntosh	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.