Lower Scan Implemented At KMBX (Minot North Dakota WSR-88D)

Areas of Dangerous Heat and Severe Thunderstorms

Dangerous heat will build across the Southwest U.S. through the end of the week with daytime highs of 110-115°F. Heat across the southern Plains will briefly ease to near-normal by late week before returning over much of the Plains into next week. Severe thunderstorms are expected across parts of the central and southern High Plains, central Great Lakes, and Ozarks Wednesday. Read More >

On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 technicians upgraded the software at the Doppler Radar site located near Minot. This upgrade adds a lower surveillance scan at 0.3 degrees. Previously the lowest scan had been 0.5 degrees. The change will improve weather radar coverage across the entire area served by this radar. This was already evidenced by National Weather Service Forecasters during the severe weather that occurred in the northern part of the state on Thursday.