Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1989, 7:30 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1989, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1989, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stutsman 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1585 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.4
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, Aug 2, 6:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 600 PM CDT WED AUG 2 1989 ...THUNERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... AT 550 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SMALL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN EMMONS COUNTY AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY...OR ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTH/SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH/NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS WOULD TAKE THE THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE HAGUE AND ZEELAND AREAS BEFORE 630 PM CDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. FORS
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 6:56 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 655 PM CDT WED AUG 2 1989 ...THUNERSTORMS CONTINUE IN EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... AT 645 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SMALL AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST MCINTOSH COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH/ SOUTHWEST OF WISHEK...OR ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THIS WOULD TAKE THE THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE WISHEK AREA BEFORE 730 PM CDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG WINDS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF STREETER IN SOUTHWEST STUTSMAN COUNTY AND JUST SOUTHWEST OF MINOT IN WARD COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. FORS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Ward | 22 min |
Nearby
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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.