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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 15, 1999Sheridan County, Wells County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1999, 5:49 AM CDT for Sheridan County, Wells County, North Dakota. It was in force for 41 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 15, 1999, 5:49 AM CDT (10:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 1999, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Sheridan County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:49 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.

NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 15, 2:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 2:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 15, 4:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 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 15, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Golden Valley	63 min
Aug 15, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings	61 min
Aug 15, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Stark	54 min
Aug 15, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	45 min
Aug 15, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	54 min
Aug 15, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Slope	59 min
Aug 15, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Stark	65 min
Aug 15, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Morton, Oliver	55 min
Aug 15, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean	55 min
Aug 15, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	60 min
Aug 15, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	57 min
Aug 15, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Mercer	39 min
Aug 15, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean	44 min
Aug 15, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton, Oliver	56 min
Aug 15, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry, McLean	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.