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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 9, 2026Pierce County, Wells County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2026, 6:44 PM CDT for Pierce County, Wells 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: Jul 9, 2026, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2026, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Pierce County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

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 9, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 488 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: 2011 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 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 severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 9, 2:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
200 PM CDT Thu Jul 9 2026

NDZ001>005-009-010-012-013-017>020-022-023-025-031>033-035>037-
040>044-046>048-050-051-055>062-101900-
Divide-Burke-Renville-Bottineau-Rolette-Williams-Mountrail-
McHenry-Pierce-McKenzie-Dunn-Mercer-Oliver-Sheridan-Wells-Foster-
Golden Valley-Billings-Stark-Burleigh-Kidder-Stutsman-Slope-
Hettinger-Grant-Bowman-Adams-Emmons-Logan-La Moure-McIntosh-
Dickey-Northwest Ward-Central and Southern Ward/Minot Area-
Western McLean-Eastern McLean-Western Morton-Eastern Morton-
Western Sioux-Eastern Sioux-
200 PM CDT Thu Jul 9 2026 /100 PM MDT Thu Jul 9 2026/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of north central
North Dakota, northwest North Dakota, south central North Dakota,
southeast North Dakota, and southwest North Dakota.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight

Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms are possible across
western and central North Dakota this afternoon and this evening.
The main hazards from any storm that becomes severe will be large
hail up to 2 inches in diameter and damaging wind gusts up to 60
mph.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday

An Extreme Heat Watch has been issued for all of western and
central North Dakota from midday Saturday through Monday evening.
See www.weather.gov/bis for additional information.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotters are asked to provide reports to the NWS using standard
procedures, including through our social media accounts.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 9, 6:20 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Bismarck ND
620 PM CDT Thu Jul 9 2026

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

0555 PM     Hail             6 SSW Orrin             48.02N 100.24W
07/09/2026  E1.25 Inch       McHenry            ND   Trained Spotter

            Half-dollar/walnut sized hail 9 NE of Drake.
            Time estimated from radar.

&&

CSD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 2:04 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Watch	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 30 more	24 hr
Jul 9, 6:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie	28 min
Jul 9, 7:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie	26 min
Jul 9, 8:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dunn	30 min
Jul 9, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McHenry	30 min
Jul 9, 11:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Sheridan	29 min
Jul 9, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce	45 min
Jul 9, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	McHenry	38 min
Jul 9, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce	62 min
Jul 9, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux	46 min
Jul 9, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	53 min
Jul 9, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant	48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.