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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2025, 1:32 AM CDT for Bottineau County, McHenry County, Rolette County, North Dakota. It was in force for 43 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, 2025, 1:32 AM CDT (06:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2025, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bottineau County, ND, McHenry County, ND, Rolette County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:31 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 26, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2248 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Grant, Morton, Sioux | 56 min |
| Jul 26, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Logan | 47 min |
| Jul 26, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, Morton | 54 min |
| Jul 26, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder, Stutsman | 62 min |
| Jul 26, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Kidder, Stutsman | 54 min |
| Jul 27, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster, Kidder, Stutsman, Wells | 56 min |
| Jul 27, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton, Sioux | 48 min |
| Jul 27, 1:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | McKenzie, Williams | 43 min |
| Jul 27, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope | 41 min |
| Jul 27, 1:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley | 43 min |
| Jul 27, 1:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Emmons, Sioux | 26 min |
| Jul 27, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, McKenzie, Williams | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce, Rolette | 65 min |
| Jul 27, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Bowman, Grant, Hettinger, Slope, Stark | 48 min |
| Jul 27, 2:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Renville | 27 min |
| Jul 27, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Dunn, Stark | 55 min |
| Jul 27, 2:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Renville | 26 min |
| Jul 27, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, Hettinger, Mercer, Morton, Stark | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail, Williams | 65 min |
| Jul 27, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Stark | 59 min |
| Jul 27, 3:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce | 4 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Burke | 4 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Divide, Mountrail, Renville, Ward | 59 min |
| Jul 27, 3:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail, Ward | 50 min |
| Jul 27, 4:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Mountrail, Ward | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 4:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, McLean, Renville, Ward | 56 min |
| Jul 27, 5:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Pierce, Sheridan, Wells | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 5:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | Ward | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 6:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce, Rolette, Wells | 29 min |
| Jul 27, 6:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Rolette | 33 min |
| Jul 27, 12:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Golden Valley | 32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.