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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 14, 1996Hettinger County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 8:33 AM MDT for Hettinger County, North Dakota. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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 14, 1996, 8:33 AM MDT (14:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1996, 9:15 AM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Hettinger County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 8:55 AM MDT	Hail 0.75	Regent, ND
Jun 14, 9:18 AM MDT	Hail 0.75	Lefor, 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.

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 14, 6:25 AM MDT, 2 hours 8 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
Jun 14, 9:10 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Stark	50 min
Jun 14, 10:03 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Stark	42 min
Jun 14, 10:49 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Hettinger	41 min
Jun 14, 11:32 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	43 min
Jun 14, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Golden Valley, McKenzie	65 min
Jun 14, 5:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.