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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2026, 5:37 PM CDT for Burke County, Mountrail County, Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 53 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
- Jun 16, 2026, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2026, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Burke County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Ward County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Jun 16, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:41 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 16, 12:15 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | BIS | Adams, Bowman, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux, Slope | 31 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Burke | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Ward | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Williams | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 6:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | Ward | 26 min |
| Jun 16, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 6:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | McHenry | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.