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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 15, 2026Bottineau County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2026, 2:23 AM CDT for Bottineau County, North Dakota. It was in force for 37 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 15, 2026, 2:23 AM CDT (07:23 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 2026, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Bottineau County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 429 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 2026-07-15Temperature 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 2026-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 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
2449 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 11:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISBurke31 min
Jul 14, 11:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke, Divide, Williams40 min
Jul 15, 12:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISBurke37 min
Jul 15, 2:04 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISBottineau, Rolette26 min
Jul 15, 3:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBISBottineau34 min
Jul 15, 3:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau, Rolette42 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.