Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1998, 11:56 PM CDT for McKenzie County, Williams County, North Dakota. It was in force for 59 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
- Jul 4, 1998, 11:56 PM CDT (04:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1998, 12:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McKenzie County, ND, Williams County, ND
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 12:09 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 | Williston, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 2813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie, Williams | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 1:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | Williams | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burke | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.