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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 279, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 23, 2020Burleigh County, Kidder County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2020, 9:14 PM CDT for Burleigh County, Kidder County, North Dakota. It was in force for 61 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 23, 2020, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2020, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Burleigh County, ND, Kidder County, ND

The radar

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What forecasters said that day

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NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 23, 5:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 5:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 23, 6:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 23, 5:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
534 PM CDT SUN AUG 23 2020

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

0500 PM     HAIL             3 W FORBES              45.95N 98.85W
08/23/2020  E1.50 INCH       DICKEY             ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            THE LARGEST HAIL RANGED IN SIZE FROM QUARTER
            TO JUST UNDER GOLF BALL SIZE. EDGES OF THE
            HAIL WERE VERY JAGGED. HAIL LASTED FROM 500
            PM TO 505 PM. VERY LITTLE WIND WITH THE
            SEVERE STORM AND 0.25 INCHES OF RAIN TOTAL.
            THIS REPORT WAS FROM A NDARB OBSERVER.

&&

JP MARTIN

Local storm report, Aug 23, 5:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 23, 6:07 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 8:27 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 23, 8:34 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
834 PM CDT SUN AUG 23 2020

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

0640 PM     HAIL             4 NNE GUELPH            46.08N 98.22W
08/23/2020  E1.00 INCH       DICKEY             ND   PUBLIC

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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 8:41 PM CDT, 33 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
Aug 23, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	LaMoure	33 min
Aug 23, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	19 min
Aug 23, 8:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Foster, Wells	6 hr
Aug 23, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	67 min
Aug 23, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	56 min
Aug 23, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Logan, Stutsman	56 min
Aug 23, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Kidder, Logan	64 min
Aug 23, 11:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Kidder, Stutsman	43 min
Aug 24, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	34 min
Aug 24, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder	45 min
Aug 24, 1:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Stutsman	42 min
Aug 24, 1:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	44 min
Aug 24, 1:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Kidder, Stutsman	9 hr
Aug 24, 1:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	50 min
Aug 24, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	LaMoure	44 min
Aug 24, 2:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	42 min
Aug 24, 3:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	LaMoure	30 min

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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.