Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1998, 5:16 PM CDT for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 49 min. 3 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
- May 27, 1998, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1998, 6:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burleigh County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 5:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Wilton, ND | Damage mostly at truck stop on highway 83. |
| May 27, 5:49 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Regan, ND | |
| May 27, 6:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Wing, ND | Total path was 10 miles long and 4 miles wide and extended from 1 mile east of Wing to 1 east of Tuttle. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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, May 27, 4:48 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
448 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM 5 SW STANTON ND 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/27/98 MERCER
ENDLocal storm report, May 27, 4:48 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
448 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM 5 SW STANTON ND 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/27/98 MERCER
ENDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Mercer | 47 min |
| May 27, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Kidder | 60 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.