Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1986, 5:03 PM CDT for Logan County, North Dakota. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1986, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1986, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, ND
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 245 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER SOUTHCENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... AT 235 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF JAMESTOWN IN NORTHEAST STUTSMAN COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING IN EASTERN HETTINGER..EASTERN ADAMS.. AND SOUTHWEST GRANT COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. THESE STORMS ARE 60 TO 100 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK. ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH. BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY OVER SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD CONTINUE MONITORING WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE STORMS. STOLTZ
Local storm report, Jun 3, 3:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
300 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 1986..DATE OF OCCURRANCE WAS MON JUN 2 1986
TIME ZONE EVENT..LOCATION..REMARKS..
720 PM CDT WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH..ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINS..WERE
REPORTED AT ST. JOHN..IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
NEAR THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER.
744 PM CDT WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH REPORTED 10 MILES NORTHEAST
OF CANDO. THE HIGH WINDS REDUCED VISIBILITIES
TO 1/2 MILE IN BLOWING DUST.
805 PM CDT HAIL ONE INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED ON A FARM
3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOHALL.
835 PM CDT HAIL 3/4 OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED IN
MOHALL.
RCMSpecial weather statement, Jun 3, 4:45 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Rolette, Towner | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ramsey | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, Williams | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Renville | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Renville | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Logan | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.