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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 9, 2008Grant County, Sioux County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2008, 6:34 PM MDT for Grant County, Sioux County, North Dakota. It was in force for 56 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
Jul 9, 2008, 6:34 PM MDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2008, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Grant County, ND, Sioux County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Jul 9, 2:55 PM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:55 PM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 3:25 AM MDT, 15 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
425 AM CDT WED JUL 9 2008

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-100930-
DIVIDE-BURKE-RENVILLE-BOTTINEAU-ROLETTE-WILLIAMS-MOUNTRAIL-WARD-
MCHENRY-PIERCE-MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-MCLEAN-SHERIDAN-WELLS-
FOSTER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-BURLEIGH-KIDDER-
STUTSMAN-SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-EMMONS-LOGAN-
LA MOURE-MCINTOSH-DICKEY-
425 AM CDT WED JUL 9 2008 /325 AM MDT WED JUL 9 2008/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA...SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A WARM FRONT WILL DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA TODAY AND
MOVE NORTH TONIGHT. IN RESPONSE TO THIS WILL BE FOR ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON...THEN BECOMING MORE
SCATTERED TONIGHT. THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SOME SEVERE WEATHER
LATER TONIGHT. WILL NEED TO MONITOR THE STORMS AS THEY DEVELOP.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

A POTENT COLD FRONT WILL MOVE NORTH DAKOTA THURSDAY NIGHT. IN
ADVANCE OF THE FRONT THURSDAY...TEMPERATURES WILL SOAR INTO THE
90S IN MOST LOCALES. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER
DEVELOPING LATE AFTERNOON THURSDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT AS THE
COLD FRONT PLOWS THROUGH AND BRINGS IN A CHANGE OF AIRMASS. BEHIND
THE FRONT ON FRIDAY EXPECT WINDY AND COOLER AIR. NORTHWEST WINDS
WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH AND HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL COOL DOWN
INTO THE 70S.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT AND AGAIN THURSDAY
EVENING AND THURSDAY NIGHT. IF STORMS DO BECOME SEVERE...SPOTTERS
ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WITH THEIR REPORTS.

KS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 6:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISAdams65 min
Jul 9, 10:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons, Logan, McIntosh65 min
Jul 9, 11:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDickey, Emmons, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh61 min
Jul 10, 12:31 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISLogan, McIntosh59 min
Jul 10, 3:06 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchBISAdams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Grant and 6 more13 hr
Jul 10, 3:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean, Mercer, Oliver53 min
Jul 10, 3:29 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBISAdams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Grant, Hettinger and 3 more13 hr
Jul 10, 3:35 PM MDTTornado WarningBISMcLean, Mercer25 min
Jul 10, 3:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Sioux64 min
Jul 10, 3:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Morton65 min
Jul 10, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh, McLean, Oliver, Sheridan60 min
Jul 10, 4:03 PM MDTTornado WarningBISGrant, Morton27 min
Jul 10, 4:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh, Oliver67 min
Jul 10, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Morton, Sioux61 min
Jul 10, 4:50 PM MDTTornado WarningBISGrant, Morton, Sioux40 min
Jul 10, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Morton61 min
Jul 10, 5:00 PM MDTTornado WarningBISBurleigh45 min
Jul 10, 5:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISPierce, Wells29 min
Jul 10, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh, Kidder64 min
Jul 10, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Morton, Sioux60 min
Jul 10, 5:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons, Kidder, Logan55 min
Jul 10, 5:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh53 min
Jul 10, 5:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.