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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 27, 1998Burleigh County, Kidder County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1998, 6:10 PM CDT for Burleigh County, Kidder County, North Dakota. It was in force for 60 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: May 27, 1998, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1998, 7:10 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties Burleigh County, ND, Kidder County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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, 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.
May 27, 6:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Tuttle, ND	Total path was 10 miles long and 4 miles wide and extended from 1 mile east of Wing to 1 east of Tuttle.Estimate of crop damage calculated with help of county extension office.

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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 50 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

842 
WUUS1 KBIS 272312 RRA
SVRBIS
NDC015-043-280010-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
610 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BURLEIGH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  WESTERN KIDDER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 710 PM CDT

* AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF BISMARCK NEAR WING...
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  TUTTLE AT 620 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LEBLANG

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, 1 hour 22 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

END

Local storm report, May 27, 4:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 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

END

Local storm report, May 27, 5:52 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
552 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1998

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

0549 PM    7 SE REGAN                ND   60 MPH WIND GUST
05/27/98   BURLEIGH

END

Local storm report, May 27, 5:52 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
552 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1998

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

0549 PM    7 SE REGAN                ND   60 MPH WIND GUST
05/27/98   BURLEIGH

END

The 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, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	49 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.