Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT for Burke County, Renville County, Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burke County, ND, Renville County, ND, Ward County, ND
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 975 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIS 272316 RRA SVRBIS NDC075-101-013-061-280000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 615 PM CDT WED AUG 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...WESTERN RENVILLE COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN WARD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA ...EASTERN BURKE COUNTY...NORTHERN MOUNTRAIL COUNTY AT 610 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN A LINE FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLISTON TO 75 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLISTON. THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. AT 550 PM CDT ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR COLUMBUS IN BURKE COUNTY. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE KENMARE...PORTAL...TOLLEY... AND STANLEY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LEBLANG/VINING &
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 27, 3:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
NDZ001>004-009>012-017-272200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 305 PM CDT WED AUG 27 1997 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA... A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST SASKATCHEWAN WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA AROUND 400 PM CDT. THE CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN THE FORM OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF THESE STORMS CONTINUE ON THEIR PATH...PERSONS IN DIVIDE AND BURKE COUNTIES SHOULD EXPECT THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER. BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. ABELING
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 3:07 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
NDZ001>004-009>012-017-272200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 305 PM CDT WED AUG 27 1997 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA... A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST SASKATCHEWAN WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA AROUND 400 PM CDT. THE CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN THE FORM OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF THESE STORMS CONTINUE ON THEIR PATH...PERSONS IN DIVIDE AND BURKE COUNTIES SHOULD EXPECT THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER. BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. ABELING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 65 min |
| Aug 27, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Williams | 27 min |
| Aug 27, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 65 min |
| Aug 27, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke | 69 min |
| Aug 27, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Williams | 59 min |
| Aug 27, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 45 min |
| Aug 27, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Williams | 68 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.