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Special Weather Statement, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2015, 8:49 PM MDT for Bowman County, Slope 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2015, 8:49 PM MDT (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2015, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
Counties Bowman County, ND, Slope County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 214 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The text
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</html>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 Aug 4, 8:28 PM MDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 8:28 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 8:19 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 4, 8:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope | 41 min |
| Aug 5, 2:57 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Grant | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 3:46 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Grant, Morton | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 4:33 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Morton | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 5:16 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Adams, Grant, Morton | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 7:39 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Sioux | 21 min |
| Aug 5, 8:18 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Sioux | 27 min |
| Aug 5, 9:02 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Grant | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 9:10 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Morton | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 9:25 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Emmons | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 1:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | BIS | Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster, Grant, Kidder and 8 more | 29 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | McHenry | 46 min |
Nearby
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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.