Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 6:30 PM CDT for Bottineau County, North Dakota. It was in force for 35 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, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 7:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bottineau County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
922 WUUS1 KBIS 262329 RRA SVRBIS NDC009-270005- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 630 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN BOTTINEAU COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 705 PM CDT * AT 630 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 35 MILES NORTH OF MINOT OR 5 MILES SOUTH OF MOHALL... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MOHALL AT 635 PM CDT ANTLER AT 700 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 DH
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, 4:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
444 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0255 PM 3 W FULLERTON ND TORNADO
06/26/98 DICKEY TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED
DOWN
FRANSENLocal storm report, Jun 26, 6:22 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
622 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0533 PM PORTAL ND TORNADO
06/26/98 BURKE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN ON THE
SOUTHERN EDGE OF PORTAL.
NO DAMAGAE REPORTED.
RLLocal storm report, Jun 26, 6:22 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
622 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0533 PM PORTAL ND TORNADO
06/26/98 BURKE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN ON THE
SOUTHERN EDGE OF PORTAL.
NO DAMAGAE REPORTED.
RLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mercer | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McIntosh | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Dickey | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burke | 34 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.