Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1997, 12:13 AM CDT for Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 47 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
- Sep 16, 1997, 12:13 AM CDT (05:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burleigh County, ND, Morton County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 12:13 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 | Bismarck Arpt, ND | strong winds recorded with NWS ASOS unit |
| Sep 16, 1:00 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wilton, 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Hettinger | 41 min |
| Sep 15, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Ward | 69 min |
| Sep 16, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Sheridan | 29 min |
| Sep 16, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Kidder | 66 min |
| Sep 16, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce, Wells | 46 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.