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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 20, 2025Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2025, 8:42 PM CDT for Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 63 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 20, 2025, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2025, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
1.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Burleigh County, ND, Morton County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 289 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2025-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2025-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 125 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1365 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBISSlope54 min
Jul 20, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBISHettinger, Stark65 min
Jul 20, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBISBillings, Golden Valley, Slope65 min
Jul 20, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBISAdams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope62 min
Jul 20, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBISGrant, Hettinger25 min
Jul 20, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton27 min
Jul 20, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBowman62 min
Jul 20, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISAdams, Hettinger37 min
Jul 20, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBowman, Slope58 min
Jul 20, 9:09 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBISBurleigh, Morton3 hr
Jul 20, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBISAdams, Hettinger31 min
Jul 20, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBISAdams, Bowman51 min
Jul 20, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBISAdams, Bowman54 min
Jul 20, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDivide22 min
Jul 20, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh, Emmons, Kidder, Logan34 min
Jul 20, 11:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISLogan32 min
Jul 21, 12:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISSioux46 min
Jul 21, 12:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISLogan27 min
Jul 21, 1:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISLaMoure32 min
Jul 21, 1:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISLaMoure47 min
Jul 21, 2:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISMcIntosh30 min
Jul 21, 2:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISLaMoure48 min
Jul 21, 2:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISDickey28 min
Jul 21, 2:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISDickey15 min
Jul 21, 3:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISDickey15 min
Jul 21, 5:37 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryBISBillings, Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley and 7 more6 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.