Alert archive / North Dakota / 2020
Weather alerts in North Dakota, April 2020
32 weather alerts in April 2020, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 32
- Warnings
- 12
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 11
- Busiest day
- April 1, 20207 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton | 23 min |
| Mar 31, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 7:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sioux | 62 min |
| Apr 1, 3:48 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | BIS | Burke, Divide, Williams | 11 hr |
| Apr 1, 4:04 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BIS | Adams, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Foster and 14 more | 54 hr |
| Apr 1, 4:37 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 1, 3:30 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more | 42 hr |
| Apr 1, 10:17 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | BIS | Dickey, Emmons, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan and 2 more | 36 hr |
| Apr 6, 8:38 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BIS | Billings, Burke, Divide, Dunn, McKenzie, Mercer and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickey, Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 11:43 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 6, 11:54 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BIS | Dickey, Foster, LaMoure, Pierce, Rolette, Stutsman and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 7, 1:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Richland | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 11:49 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Pembina | 16 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:00 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:19 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Griggs, Nelson and 6 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 8, 10:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | BIS | Dickey | 48 hr |
| Apr 19, 5:07 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Burke, Divide, McHenry, Mountrail, Pierce and 4 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 20, 9:48 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | BIS | Adams, Bowman, Burleigh, Dickey, Dunn, Emmons and 14 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 20, 9:56 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FGF | Barnes, Eddy, Griggs, Ransom, Sargent | 9 hr |
| Apr 20, 1:09 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BIS | Adams, Billings, Burleigh, Dunn, Emmons, Golden Valley and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 21, 6:33 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Grant and 8 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 24, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Cavalier | 58 min |
| Apr 24, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Benson | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 2:35 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | BIS | Burke, Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail, Williams | 14 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:51 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Ramsey, Towner | 5 hr |
| Apr 26, 4:02 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BIS | Foster, Kidder, Pierce, Rolette, Stutsman, Wells | 5 hr |
| Apr 26, 4:15 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BIS | Billings, Burke, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie and 2 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:34 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 3 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:34 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley and 8 more | 30 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:13 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 4 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:03 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | BIS | Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope | 11 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 3 |
| Special Weather Statement | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| River Flood Warning | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 4 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 3 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County9
- Hettinger County9
- Dunn County9
- McKenzie County9
- Grant County8
- Williams County8
- Bowman County8
- Billings County8
- Stark County8
- Slope County8
- Divide County7
- Dickey County7
- Mercer County7
- Golden Valley County7
- Burke County6
- Foster County6
- Oliver County6
- Stutsman County6
- Benson County6
- Cavalier County6
- Eddy County6
- Ransom County6
- Sargent County6
- Emmons County5
- Kidder County5
- LaMoure County5
- Pierce County5
- Rolette County5
- Wells County5
- Barnes County5
- Griggs County5
- Ramsey County5
- Richland County5
- Towner County5
- Mountrail County5
- Morton County4
- Burleigh County4
- Logan County4
- McIntosh County4
- Nelson County4
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.