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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 9, 20264 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2026, 11:40 PM CDT for 4 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 65 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, 11:40 PM CDT (04:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2026, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dickey County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:43 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 9, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 2759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 13.7

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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, 10:40 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 10:40 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 10:43 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 9, 10:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 10:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 10:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 10:44 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 10:57 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 11:40 PM CDT, 0 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
Jul 9, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Sheridan	58 min
Jul 9, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Foster, Wells	62 min
Jul 9, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	19 min
Jul 9, 7:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	BIS	Wells	43 min
Jul 9, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Sheridan, Wells	57 min
Jul 9, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton	51 min
Jul 9, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder, Sheridan, Wells	61 min
Jul 9, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Wells	66 min
Jul 9, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster	58 min
Jul 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder, Sheridan, Wells	39 min
Jul 9, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	58 min
Jul 9, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton	43 min
Jul 9, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	52 min
Jul 9, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder	61 min
Jul 9, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	63 min
Jul 9, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, Logan	41 min
Jul 9, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder, Stutsman	65 min
Jul 9, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder	56 min
Jul 9, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Burleigh	40 min
Jul 9, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Logan, Stutsman	53 min
Jul 9, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, Stutsman	84 min
Jul 9, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh	55 min
Jul 9, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	63 min
Jul 10, 1:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Barnes	22 min
Jul 10, 2:02 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 30 more	5 days

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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.