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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 21, 1988Foster County, Stutsman County, Wells County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1988, 6:38 PM CDT for Foster County, Stutsman County, Wells County, North Dakota. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 1988, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1988, 7:20 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties Foster County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 21, 6:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Foster, ND

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 974 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -497 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2447 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 212339
SVRBIS
NDC093-031-103-220045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
638 PM CDT TUE JUN 21 1988

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES

   IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      NORTHWEST STUTSMAN...WESTERN FOSTER...

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      SOUTHEAST WELLS...

AT 635 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 45 MILES NORTHWEST
OF JAMESTOWN NORTH DAKOTA IN EASTERN WELLS COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM
WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
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REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.

IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN.

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

Local storm report, Jun 21, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORTS    ...DELAYED REPORT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
330 PM CDT TUE JUN 21 1988

DATE     TIME     ZONE    EVENT...LOCATION...REMARKS

JUN 20   615 PM   MDT     HETTINGER COUNTY...8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
                          NEW ENGLAND...3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED.

RCM

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 5:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
533 PM CDT TUE JUN 21 1988

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...

AT 530 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 35 MILES WEST OF
DEVILS LAKE NORTH DAKOTA NEAR ESMOND IN WESTERN BENSON COUNTY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS
AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS
AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER INDOORS IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	64 min
Jun 20, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sheridan	46 min
Jun 21, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Benson, Eddy, Wells	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1988 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.