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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 19, 2015Kidder County, Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Jun 19, 2015, 10:45 PM CDT for Kidder County, Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 2015, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2015, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Kidder County, ND, Stutsman County, ND

The radar

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 19, 6:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 6:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 1:45 PM CDT, 9 hours before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
459 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 2015

NDZ009-017-192245-
WILLIAMS ND-MCKENZIE ND-
459 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 2015

...THUNDERSTORMS WERE CROSSING THE MONTANA AND NORTH DAKOTA BORDER
WEST OF WILLISTON...

AT 455 PM CDT /355 PM MDT/...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES EAST OF FROID TO 13 MILES NORTH OF
ENID...MONTANA...WERE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS AS THEY CROSS INTO THE TRENTON...FORT UNION...AND EAST
FAIRVIEW AREA. CONTINUOUS LIGHTING WILL ALSO OCCUR.

GET INSIDE BEFORE THESE STORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

IF ON THE MISSOURI RIVER NEAR WILLISTON GET OFF THE WATER AND TO
SHORE.

&&

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT/900
PM MDT/ FOR NORTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4834 10405 4837 10400 4783 10295 4738 10361
      4754 10404
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 307DEG 50KT 4830 10428 4790 10475

MARTIN/SIMOSKO

Local storm report, Jun 19, 5:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
641 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 2015

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

0630 PM     TSTM WND GST     1 ENE BEACH             46.92N 103.98W
06/19/2015  M61 MPH          GOLDEN VALLEY      ND   AWOS

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AYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman	29 min
Jun 19, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Stark	67 min
Jun 19, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Morton, Oliver	54 min
Jun 19, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Bowman	46 min
Jun 19, 8:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Morton, Oliver	3 hr
Jun 19, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder, Morton	62 min
Jun 19, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan, Morton, Sioux	30 min
Jun 19, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman	60 min
Jun 19, 11:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Grant	44 min
Jun 20, 4:30 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Divide, McHenry, Mercer and 8 more	5 hr
Jun 20, 2:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Bottineau	30 min
Jun 20, 2:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Pierce	36 min
Jun 20, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Pierce	32 min
Jun 20, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce	20 min
Jun 20, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Wells	24 min
Jun 20, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Pierce	34 min
Jun 20, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Foster	25 min
Jun 20, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster	44 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Dakota, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.