Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 22, 1998Stark County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1998, 5:59 PM MDT for Stark County, North Dakota. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report 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 22, 1998, 5:59 PM MDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 1998, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 22, 6:42 PM MDTHail 2Dickinson, NDwindows broken out in farm house

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 22, 5:48 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
648 PM CDT SAT AUG 22 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0630 PM    13 E BEACH                ND   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/22/98   GOLDEN VALLEY

0635 PM    MEDORA                    ND   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/22/98   BILLINGS                       FROM MEDORA POLICE
                                          DEPARTMENT

0645 PM    5 S MEDORA                ND   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/22/98   BILLINGS                       FROM COUNTY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGER

TWH
Local storm report, Aug 22, 5:48 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
648 PM CDT SAT AUG 22 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0630 PM    13 E BEACH                ND   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/22/98   GOLDEN VALLEY

0635 PM    MEDORA                    ND   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/22/98   BILLINGS                       FROM MEDORA POLICE
                                          DEPARTMENT

0645 PM    5 S MEDORA                ND   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/22/98   BILLINGS                       FROM COUNTY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGER

TWH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 6:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISHettinger, Stark46 min
Aug 21, 7:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDivide, Williams62 min
Aug 21, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISHettinger, Stark48 min
Aug 21, 7:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton63 min
Aug 21, 8:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGrant, Morton62 min
Aug 21, 8:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton50 min
Aug 21, 11:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons48 min
Aug 22, 5:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBillings, Golden Valley62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1998Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.