NWS Bismarck Blog

Preliminary Damage Survey Information for Tornadoes Near Bowbells and Berthold on Sunday, June 7, 2026

Published 2026-06-08

Preliminary Information on Tornadoes Near Bowbells and Berthold on Sunday, June 7, 2026

Minot Radar Maintenance Now Beginning Friday, June 12th

Published 2026-06-05

Minot Radar Maintenance Now Beginning Friday, June 12th

2026 Growing Season Begins Friday May 8th

Published 2026-05-04

Spring Flood and Water Resources Outlook - James and Missouri River Basins

Published 2026-03-26

Spring Flood and Water Resources Outlook - Souris River Basin

Published 2026-03-26

Spring Flood and Water Resources Outlook for Western and North Central North Dakota

Published 2026-03-12

Spring Flood and Water Resources Outlook - Souris River Basin

Published 2026-02-26

Spring Flood and Water Resources Outlook - James and Missouri River Basins

Published 2026-02-26

Spring Flood and Water Resources Outlook - James and Missouri River Basins

Published 2026-02-26

Spring Flood and Water Resources Outlook - Souris River Basin

Published 2026-02-12

Missouri River Below Garrison Dam Ice Update (Updated December 18, 2025)

Published 2025-12-18

The 25th Anniversary of the November 1, 2000 Bismarck/Mandan Area Tornadoes

Published 2025-11-01

End Of The 2025 Growing Season

Published 2025-10-20

2025-2026 Winter Outlook for Western and Central North Dakota

Published 2025-10-16

End Of Frost Advisories For 2025 Growing Season

Published 2025-10-01

Numerous Tornadoes Across Central North Dakota on September 14, 2025

Published 2025-09-26

Severe Thunderstorms Across North Dakota on August 7th and 8th, 2025

Published 2025-08-12

Severe Weather Outbreak and Tornadoes, 6/27/2025

Published 2025-07-02

Derecho and Tornadoes on June 20, 2025

Published 2025-06-26

NWS Damage Survey For June 19th 2025 Tornado In Stark County

Published 2025-06-20

Severe Thunderstorms Late Sunday Night (6/15/2025) Through Early Monday Morning (6/16/2025)

Published 2025-06-17

Significant Rainfall and Expected Runoff Details Through The Week

Published 2025-05-14

Scheduled System Update April 28-April 30 impacting NOAA Weather Radio and Some Webpage Map Graphics

Published 2025-04-28

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Spring Flood and Water Resources Outlook for the Missouri River Basin

Published 2025-03-13

Spring Flood and Water Resources Outlook for the Souris River Basin

Published 2025-03-13

Probabilistic Hydrologic Outlook for Western and Central North Dakota - Issued February 27th 2025

Published 2025-02-27

Apply Now! Now Accepting Applications For Our 2025 Summer Student Volunteer Program

Published 2025-01-14

Ice Will Accumulate On The Missouri River Near Bismarck and Mandan

Published 2024-12-30

2024-2025 Winter Outlook for North Dakota

Published 2024-10-17

Here Are The Door Prize Winners From Our Open House. Thanks To All Who Attended!

Published 2024-09-18

September 15th: 150 Years of Observations in Bismarck, North Dakota

Published 2024-09-08

First Look at the Upcoming Winter Season 2024-25

Published 2024-09-02

Severe Thunderstorms Across Southwest and South Central North Dakota on Sunday, June 2nd, 2024

Published 2024-06-07

2024 Growing Season Begins Friday May 10th

Published 2024-05-08

North Dakota Severe Summer Weather Awareness Week April 22 through April 26, 2024

Published 2024-04-18

Severe Summer Weather Awareness Week Coloring Contest

Published 2024-04-18

Billings County Skywarn Session is POSTPONED - NO session Monday March 25

Published 2024-03-22

Interested In Helping Us Measure Precipitation?

Published 2024-03-08

Spring Flood Outlook for the Souris River Basin (updated February 29)

Published 2024-02-29

Snowfall Reports from February 26-27, 2024

Published 2024-02-27

Ice Storm in Southwest, South Central, and Eastern North Dakota December 25-27, 2023

Published 2024-02-13

Skywarn Recognition Day 2023

Published 2023-12-01

2023-2024 Winter Outlook for Western and Central North Dakota

Published 2023-10-29

Frost Advisories end for the 2023 Growing Season October 1st

Published 2023-09-29

Severe Thunderstorms Across Southwest and South Central North Dakota on Labor Day 2023

Published 2023-09-06

Precipitation Reports From Monday, September 4th, Through Tuesday, September 5th, 2023

Published 2023-09-06

First Look at the Upcoming 2023-24 Winter Season

Published 2023-08-31

Wind Damage and Large Hail, Including Storm Survey Results, from Severe Thunderstorms on August 1, 2023

Published 2023-08-02

National Weather Service Surveyed Damage from June 21, 2023 in Sioux County North Dakota

Published 2023-06-23

Click here to have input into NWS policy

Published 2023-06-06

Keep North Dakota's Number at ZERO! (Map as of May 22)

Published 2023-05-23

The 2023 Local Growing Season Begins Monday, May 15th

Published 2023-05-11

Fact Sheet: Hydrologic Ensemble Forecast Service (HEFS)

Published 2023-04-04

Join us Friday, March 24th on Facebook for a Live Updated Spring Hydro Outlook

Published 2023-03-23

The Latest COOP Clipboard Newsletter

Published 2023-03-16

SNOWFALL REPORTS FROM THE MARCH 10-12 BLIZZARD

Published 2023-03-13

March 5th Heavy Snow Event

Published 2023-03-07

Heavy Snow 2/28/2023 Through 3/1/2023

Published 2023-03-02

Looking for Volunteer Weather Observers

Published 2023-03-02

Lowest Temperature Ever in North Dakota

Published 2023-02-15

NOAA Student Photo Contest

Published 2023-02-10

Washington's Birthday - Not President's Day (and other Federal Holidays)

Published 2023-02-09

Ever wonder about our twice a day balloon launches? Click here to learn more!

Published 2023-01-23

Ever wonder about our twice a day balloon launches? Click here to learn more!

Skywarn Recognition Day 2022 - What's that all about?

Published 2022-11-23

Frost Advisories End Sunday September 25th

Published 2022-09-22

McLean County Tornadoes August 15 2022

Published 2022-08-18

Severe Weather in Northwest and North Central North Dakota on July 18 and 19, 2022

Published 2022-07-21

Severe Weather During the Early Morning of June 14th, 2022

Published 2022-06-17

The Second April Blizzard of 2022

Published 2022-04-26

Information on Minot Snowfall from Last Week's Blizzard

Published 2022-04-20

Get the latest details for the April 12th through the 14th Blizzard here

Published 2022-04-18

25 Years Since the Blizzard of April 4-7, 1997

Published 2022-04-11

Spring Runoff Season To Continue

Published 2022-03-18

2022 Upper Mississippi Valley Spring Hazard Outlook

Published 2022-03-17

2022 Missouri Basin Spring Hazard Outlook

Published 2022-03-17

New Low Bandwidth Radar Pages

Published 2022-02-18

3 Day Snowfall Reports From December 25 to December 27

Published 2021-12-28

Snowfall Reports Christmas Eve Through Christmas Day

Published 2021-12-26

Ice Buildup May Bring Increased Water Levels on the Missouri River Near Bismarck/Mandan

Published 2021-12-16

Changes in Flood Warnings Implemented November 9th, 2021

Published 2021-11-04

NWS Bismarck Will End Frost Advisories For the Growing Season on October 1st

Published 2021-09-29

North Dakota Climate Bulletin - Summer 2021 Review

Published 2021-09-24

24 Hour Rainfall Totals Ending September 20 at 9:00am

Published 2021-09-20

Just How Hot Has 2021 Been in Bismarck

Published 2021-08-09

August 10, 2020 Midwest Tremendously Destructive Derecho - Focus on IOWA

Published 2021-08-08

1-800 Phone Line Out Of Service

Published 2021-05-19

25th Anniversary of the May 16, 1996 Bow Echo in South Central North Dakota

Published 2021-05-16

The 2021 Local Growing Season Begins Saturday May 15th

Published 2021-05-13

United States Air Force Minot, ND WSR-88D Radar Back In Service

Published 2021-04-28

Spring Flood and Water Resources Outlook for the Missouri and James River Basins

Published 2021-03-25

NOAA Upgrades U.S. Global Weather Model

Published 2021-03-23

Spring Flood and Water Resources Outlook for the Souris (Mouse) River Basin

Published 2021-03-11

Lake Metigoshe February 13th Minimum Temperature Observation Invalidated

Published 2021-03-05

We need your help! We are looking for volunteers to help us measure precipitation and snow! Interested? Check out this link!

Published 2021-03-03

New Tool: The Winter Storm Severity Index

Published 2021-02-05

New National Weather Service Radar Web Page is Now Live

Published 2020-12-05

Have an extra 5 minutes? Take this quick survey

Published 2020-11-17

Highest Wind Reports From Sunday, September 27th 2020

Published 2020-09-28

Highest Wind Reports From Saturday, September 26th 2020

Published 2020-09-28

Have you Ever Wondered How the Local Drought Monitor Classifications are Made?

Published 2020-09-25

Looking Back at the 1981 Bismarck F3 Tornado

Published 2020-07-28

Minot Weather Radar Out Of Service

Published 2020-06-27

The 2020 Growing Season Begins Friday, May 15th!

Published 2020-05-12

Hydrologic Outlooks - March 26 (Missouri / James basins - click previous version for Souris Basin)

Published 2020-03-26

Weather Observers needed across North Dakota!

Published 2020-03-02

Post Thanksgiving Winter Storm - 11/29/2019 and 11/30/2019

Published 2019-12-02

North Dakota Travel Information Map

Published 2019-11-30

Latest Snowfall Reports (Check Back For Updates)

Published 2019-11-30

KHND Radio Harvey, ND - Weather Ready Nation Ambassador

Published 2019-11-05

Missouri River Outlook

Published 2019-10-17

Historic October 2019 Blizzard (October 10-13)

Published 2019-10-15

September 20-21 Flooding

Published 2019-09-22

September is - National Preparedness Month

Published 2019-09-06

U.S. Lightning Deaths in 2019 (As of September 5)

Published 2019-09-03

ForecastRadarLoop

Published 2019-08-19

This is just one of our many short range forecasts in depicting how the thunderstorms "may" develop this afternoon through tonight. The last couple model runs have been fairly consistent showing the stronger storms may potentially scoot from the Turtle Mountains into northeast North Dakota around midnight and beyond. We'll see!

August, 6 2019 Severe Storms: Western and Central North Dakota

Published 2019-08-07

July 12-13, 2019: Western North Dakota Severe Storms and Mott Tornado

Published 2019-07-13

Heavy Rain and Flooding on July 8-9, 2019

Published 2019-07-12

2 Day Rain Totals July 8 through 10 2019

Published 2019-07-10

Report on the Drought of 2017 (large file - may take a moment to load)

Published 2019-06-02

Be Safe This Summer - wherever you go (Be Weather-Ready)

Published 2019-05-24

2019 Local Growing Season Begins Thursday May 16th

Published 2019-05-16

Spring_Melt_Season_Update

Published 2019-03-21

Flood Preparation Information through ND State University

Published 2019-03-20

Flood Preparation - ND Response

Published 2019-03-20

Storm Summary: February 16 and 17, 2019 Heavy Snow Across Southwest North Dakota

Published 2019-02-18

National Weather Service Bismarck Storm Summary: February 16 and 17, 2019 Heavy Snow Across Southwest North Dakota

Minot North Dakota (KMBX) RADAR Study

Published 2019-02-08

Winter Storm Summary - 1/27/2019

Published 2019-01-28

Storm Total Snow Reports - so far - as of early Thursday Morning

Published 2018-12-27

We Are - The NWS

Published 2018-12-18

Western and Central North Dakota Hydrologic Expectations For The 2018-2019 Winter

Published 2018-12-18

Western and Central North Dakota Hydrologic Expectations For The 2018-2019 Winter

2018 Preliminary U.S. Flood Fatalities

Published 2018-12-07

We Are - NOAA

Published 2018-11-20

Climate Prediction Center Winter Outlook

Published 2018-10-18

Minot Weather Radio Interruption

Published 2018-10-18

Frost and Freeze Program Ended For The Fall

Published 2018-09-29

Frost and Freeze Program Ended For The Fall

North Dakota Summer Weather Briefing Page

Published 2018-08-23

North Dakota Summer Weather Briefing Page. Radar, current conditions, thunderstorm and rainfall forecasts, drought and heat.

Two Dodge Area Tornadoes July 14, 2018

Published 2018-07-19

Watford City Area Tornado Rated EF-2 (July 10, 2018)

Published 2018-07-10

Watford City Area Tornado Rated EF-2

Severe Storms July 8 2018

Published 2018-07-09

Severe Storms struck parts of central North Dakota, first in the early morning hours, then again in the late afternoon and evening.

Weather Reports from Tuesday Night July 3 into the 4th

Published 2018-07-04

Damage Survey from June 29 2018

Published 2018-06-30

Preliminary Storm Reports From Thursday and Thursday Night

Published 2018-06-29

Storm Reprots

June 14, 2018, Severe Weather Summary

Published 2018-06-16

June 14, 2018, severe weather summary across western and central North Dakota.

Storm Total Rainfall Thursday Morning Through Friday Morning

Published 2018-05-18

Bismarck Radar Repair Update

Published 2018-05-16

Bismarck Weather Radar Out of Service

Published 2018-05-04

Minot Weather Radar Upgrade

Published 2018-04-06

Spring Flood and Water Resources Outlooks for Missouri, James, and Souris River basins.

Published 2018-03-22

U.S. Spring Outlook

Published 2018-03-15

North Dakota Drought Briefing Page

Published 2017-06-23

North Dakota Drought Briefing Page

Building A Weather-Ready Nation - through WEA (Wireless Emergency Alerts)

Published 2017-06-22