Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 8:07 PM CDT for Dickey County, North Dakota. It was in force for 53 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
- Jun 10, 1998, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickey County, ND
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ellendale, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
239 WUUS1 KBIS 110110 RRA SVRBIS NDC021-110210- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 807 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DICKEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 806 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 50 MILES SOUTH OF JAMESTOWN...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELLENDALE... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ELLENDALE AT 820 PM CDT FULLERTON AT 825 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. JP MARTIN
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
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 7:15 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-110300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 715 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... COUNTIES NO LONGER IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE BURLEIGH...MORTON... KIDDER...SHERIDAN...MCLEAN...SIOUX...AND OLIVER. THOSE COUNTIES THAT REMAIN IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT INCLUDE...EMMONS...DICKEY...LAMOURE...RANSOM...SARGENT ...LOGAN...STUTSMAN...AND MCINTOSH. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE THROUGH THE THREAT AREA. HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. JENSEN
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 7:15 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-110300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 715 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... COUNTIES NO LONGER IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE BURLEIGH...MORTON... KIDDER...SHERIDAN...MCLEAN...SIOUX...AND OLIVER. THOSE COUNTIES THAT REMAIN IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT INCLUDE...EMMONS...DICKEY...LAMOURE...RANSOM...SARGENT ...LOGAN...STUTSMAN...AND MCINTOSH. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE THROUGH THE THREAT AREA. HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. JENSEN
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.