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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 21, 1998Grant County, Morton County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 1998, 8:08 PM MDT for Grant County, Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 62 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 21, 1998, 8:08 PM MDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 21, 1998, 9:10 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties Grant County, ND, Morton County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 21, 8:18 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Elgin, ND	hail reported over heart butte dam 14 s glen ullin
Aug 21, 8:38 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	New Salem, ND	minor damage to homes and crops 6.5 inches rain

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 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

Local storm report, Aug 21, 6:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 21, 6:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 21, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Stark	46 min
Aug 21, 7:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	62 min
Aug 21, 7:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger, Stark	48 min
Aug 21, 7:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	63 min
Aug 21, 8:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	50 min
Aug 21, 11:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	48 min
Aug 22, 5:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	62 min
Aug 22, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.