Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1989, 9:49 PM CDT for Kidder County, Logan County, North Dakota. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1989, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1989, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kidder County, ND, 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 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 1030 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 25, 4:25 PM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 425 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... AT 4 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR WAS DETECTING A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN TO THE CANADIAN BORDER...65 MILES NORTH OF DEVILS LAKE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE PASSING THROUGH THE DEVILS LAKE AREA BETWEEN 430 AND 530 PM CDT. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS. LEBLANG
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 8:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 800 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... AT 755 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR DRISCOLL...25 MILES EAST OF BISMARCK. ANOTHER STRONG CELL WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF LINTON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ]30 MPH AND LIKELY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS TO 55 MPH...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. PERSONS IN EMMONS...EASTERN BURLEIGH...AND KIDDER COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. LEBLANG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder | 56 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.