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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 27, 20155 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2015, 10:27 PM CDT for 5 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 48 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 27, 2015, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2015, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Burleigh County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Grant County, ND, Morton County, ND, Sioux County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:28 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
Jul 27, 7:31 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.

NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 27, 9:45 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 9:45 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 9:42 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 9:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 27, 9:28 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
928 PM CDT MON JUL 27 2015

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

0900 PM     TSTM WND GST     10 NNE EAST FAIRVIEW    47.99N 103.96W
07/27/2015  E60 MPH          WILLIAMS           ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

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AJ

Local storm report, Jul 27, 9:49 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 27, 9:56 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 10:14 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 27, 10:25 PM CDT, 2 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
Jul 27, 8:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Slope	26 min
Jul 27, 8:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Adams	22 min
Jul 27, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	67 min
Jul 27, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger	61 min
Jul 27, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	24 min
Jul 27, 9:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	26 min
Jul 27, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	66 min
Jul 27, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope, Stark	64 min
Jul 27, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Hettinger, Morton, Sioux	51 min
Jul 27, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	38 min
Jul 27, 10:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie	31 min
Jul 27, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie	59 min
Jul 27, 11:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McLean, Oliver	44 min
Jul 27, 11:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Logan	40 min
Jul 27, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burke, Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail, Williams	59 min
Jul 27, 11:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh	40 min
Jul 28, 12:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Bottineau, Foster, McHenry, Pierce, Rolette, Sheridan and 1 more	50 min
Jul 28, 12:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman	58 min
Jul 28, 1:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Foster, Pierce, Rolette, Wells	60 min
Jul 28, 1:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure, Stutsman	61 min
Jul 28, 2:33 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 20 more	22 hr
Jul 28, 2:33 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster and 14 more	40 hr

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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.