Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1997, 4:35 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 55 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 31, 1997, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stutsman County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 5:05 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Medina, ND | property damage estimated |
| Aug 31, 5:35 PM CDT | Hail 4.5 | Windsor, ND | property damage estimated |
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.
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 31, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -416 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIS 312136 RRA SVRBIS NDC093-312230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 435 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...STUTSMAN COUNTY AT 433 PM CDT BISMARCK DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 40 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORMS ARE PENGREE AND MEDINA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. TSW/RL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder | 62 min |
| Aug 31, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 63 min |
| Aug 31, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster | 47 min |
| Aug 31, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 32 min |
| Aug 31, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder, Stutsman | 51 min |
| Aug 31, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 17 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.