Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Bismarck, ND

Issued

May 4, 1997, 5:13 PM MDT (23:13 UTC)

Expired

May 4, 1997, 6:00 PM MDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Bismarck, ND

Area

Whole counties

Counties Adams County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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.

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.

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WUUS1 KBIS 042314 RRA
SVRBIS
NDC037-001-041-050000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
613 PM CDT (513 PM MDT) SUN MAY 4 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT (600 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...GRANT COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...EASTERN ADAMS COUNTY...EASTERN HETTINGER COUNTY
 
AT 500 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 10 MILES EAST
OF DICKINSON TO 60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DICKINSON MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE COUNTIES OF HETTINGER AND ADAMS BY
530 PM AND WILL MOVE INTO GRANT COUNTY BY 530 PM. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF
THIS LINE BY 530 PM INCLUDE REGENT...MOTT...HETTINGER AND HAYNES. TOWNS
IN GRANT COUNTY INCLUDE ELGIN...AND NEW LEIPZIG BY 535 TO 540 PM MDT.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
ABELING

In the hours before

NDZ001>004-009>012-017>022-031>036-040>047-050-050300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
430 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 1997

...COLD FRONT BRINGING GUSTY WINDS TO WEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE STATE THIS EVENING IS EXPECTED TO BRING
SEVERAL HOURS OF GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS TO WEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONT AND A
FEW SHOWERS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 TO 50 MPH. A SHOWER THAT WENT
THROUGH MILES CITY AT 320 PM CDT PRODUCED A WIND GUST TO 55 MPH AND
CAUSED SOME DAMAGE TO IN THE CITY.

AFTER THE SUN SETS THE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH TO 10 TO 25 MPH.

ABELING

NDZ001>004-009>012-017>022-031>036-040>047-050-050300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
430 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 1997

...COLD FRONT BRINGING GUSTY WINDS TO WEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE STATE THIS EVENING IS EXPECTED TO BRING
SEVERAL HOURS OF GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS TO WEST AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONT AND A
FEW SHOWERS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 TO 50 MPH. A SHOWER THAT WENT
THROUGH MILES CITY AT 320 PM CDT PRODUCED A WIND GUST TO 55 MPH AND
CAUSED SOME DAMAGE TO IN THE CITY.

AFTER THE SUN SETS THE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH TO 10 TO 25 MPH.

ABELING

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.