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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 16, 2006LaMoure County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2006, 8:04 PM CDT for LaMoure County, North Dakota. It was in force for 24 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 16, 2006, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2006, 8:28 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County LaMoure County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 16, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

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

Local storm report, Aug 16, 7:05 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 16, 7:14 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 16, 7:19 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
719 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0650 PM     HAIL             SPIRITWOOD LAKE         47.07N 98.59W
08/16/2006  E0.75 INCH       STUTSMAN           ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            PENNY SIZE HAIL.

&&

CJS

Local storm report, Aug 16, 7:23 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
723 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0710 PM     HAIL             10 N KULM               46.45N 98.95W
08/16/2006  E0.88 INCH       LAMOURE            ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LOTS OF DIME SIZE HAIL WITH LARGEST STONES PENNY TO
            NICKEL.

&&

NHEINERT

Local storm report, Aug 16, 7:57 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
757 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0740 PM     HAIL             KULM                    46.30N 98.95W
08/16/2006  E0.75 INCH       LAMOURE            ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LARGEST STONE REPORTED WAS PENNY. HAIL LASTED BRIEFLY.

&&

NHEINERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	60 min
Aug 17, 7:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Golden Valley	25 min
Aug 17, 7:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings	32 min
Aug 17, 8:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.