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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 13, 20267 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this high wind watch at May 13, 2026, 1:39 AM CDT for 7 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at May 14, 2026, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2026, 1:39 AM CDT (06:39 UTC)
In effect from: May 14, 2026, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 13, 2026, 1:47 PM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Burke County, ND, Divide County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Renville County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:41 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

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 294 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3372 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at May 13, 12:42 AM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 12:42 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 12:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 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
May 13, 1:28 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 30 more	21 hr
May 13, 1:47 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Burke, Divide, McHenry, McKenzie, Mountrail and 5 more	37 hr
May 13, 1:47 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 30 more	55 hr
May 13, 2:02 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 30 more	55 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.