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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 26, 1998McIntosh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 1:13 PM CDT for McIntosh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 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, 1:13 PM CDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1998, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County McIntosh County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1998-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1140 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1998-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 238 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-311 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

906 
WUUS1 KBIS 261812 RRA
SVRBIS
NDC051-261845-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
113 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 145 PM CDT

* AT 110 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF ASHLEY OR 65 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF BISMARCK... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ASHLEY AT 125 PM CDT
  VENTURIA AT 120 PM CDT
  WISHEK  AT 125 PM CDT
  LEHR AT 130 PM CDT

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

VAN ESS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBillings62 min
Jun 26, 3:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMercer31 min
Jun 26, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WarningBISDickey32 min
Jun 26, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningBISBurke34 min
Jun 26, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau35 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.