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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 2, 1996Burke County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1996, 8:10 PM CDT for Burke County, North Dakota. It was in force for 65 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, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Burke County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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, 5:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

NDZ003>005-011>013-019>023-033>037-040>048-050-051-030100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
525 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 1996

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

AT 515 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN SOUTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA...45 MILES SOUTH OF BISMARCK IN EASTERN SIOUX COUNTY. THESE
STORMS WILL MOVE EAST INTO EMMONS COUNTY NEAR THE TOWNS OF LINTON AND
STRASBURG BY 615 PM.

AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN MONTANA AND WILL MOVE INTO
WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA BY 7 PM CDT.  WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING. IF YOU ARE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES BE
PREPARED AND ON THE LOOKOUT VFOR THREATENING WEATHER.

ABELING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Slope, Stark	64 min
Aug 2, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mountrail	32 min
Aug 2, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	62 min
Aug 2, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Morton	67 min
Aug 2, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton	59 min
Aug 2, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant	45 min
Aug 2, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton	56 min
Aug 2, 10:41 PM CDT	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.