Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 2:59 AM MDT for Mercer County, North Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1998, 2:59 AM MDT (08:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 3:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mercer County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:03 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIS 260858 RRA SVRBIS NDC057-260930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 359 AM CDT (259 AM MDT) FRI JUN 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MERCER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 330 AM MDT (430 AM CDT) * AT 355 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 45 MILES SOUTH OF MINOT...5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PICK CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PICK CITY AT 405 AM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! , HAMILTON
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, Jun 26, 1:44 AM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
244 AM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0155 AM MEDORA ND 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/98 BILLINGS DEPUTY SHERIFF REPORTED A
LOT OF DIME SIZE HAIL IN
THE TOWN OF MEDORA.
JP MARTINLocal storm report, Jun 26, 1:44 AM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
244 AM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0155 AM MEDORA ND 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/98 BILLINGS DEPUTY SHERIFF REPORTED A
LOT OF DIME SIZE HAIL IN
THE TOWN OF MEDORA.
JP MARTINThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 12:38 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 12:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McIntosh | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 2:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Dickey | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 4:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burke | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.