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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 6, 1998McKenzie County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT for McKenzie County, North Dakota. It was in force for 60 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: Jul 6, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1998, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County McKenzie County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 230 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -306 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1386 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jul 6, 5:51 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
551 PM CDT MON JUL 6 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0432 PM    2 SW FOXHOLM              ND   2.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/98   WARD

0420 PM    BERTHOLD                  ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/98   WARD

0449 PM    15 E PARSHALL             ND   TORNADO
07/06/98   WARD                           STANLEY RADAR OPERATOR
                                          REPORTED TORNADO VIA ARB
                                          PILOT

0450 PM    RYDER                     ND   TORNADO
07/06/98   WARD                           TORNADO REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTERS

0520 PM    19 S MINOT                ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/98   WARD

LLP

Local storm report, Jul 6, 5:51 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
551 PM CDT MON JUL 6 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0432 PM    2 SW FOXHOLM              ND   2.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/98   WARD

0420 PM    BERTHOLD                  ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/98   WARD

0449 PM    15 E PARSHALL             ND   TORNADO
07/06/98   MOUNTRAIL                      STANLEY RADAR OPERATOR
                                          REPORTED TORNADO VIA ARB
                                          PILOT

0450 PM    RYDER                     ND   TORNADO
07/06/98   WARD                           TORNADO REPORTED BY
        z                                  SPOTTERS

0520 PM    19 S MINOT                ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/98   WARD

LLP

Local storm report, Jul 6, 5:51 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
551 PM CDT MON JUL 6 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0432 PM    2 SW FOXHOLM              ND   2.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/98   WARD

0420 PM    BERTHOLD                  ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/98   WARD

0449 PM    15 E PARSHALL             ND   TORNADO
07/06/98   WARD                           STANLEY RADAR OPERATOR
                                          REPORTED TORNADO VIA ARB
                                          PILOT

0450 PM    RYDER                     ND   TORNADO
07/06/98   WARD                           TORNADO REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTERS

0520 PM    19 S MINOT                ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/06/98   WARD

LLP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke	48 min
Jul 5, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burke	34 min
Jul 5, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	44 min
Jul 5, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	47 min
Jul 5, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	58 min
Jul 5, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	58 min
Jul 5, 10:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Williams	28 min
Jul 5, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	46 min
Jul 6, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail, Ward	61 min
Jul 6, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	64 min
Jul 6, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	64 min
Jul 6, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Ward	49 min
Jul 6, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	47 min
Jul 6, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	45 min
Jul 6, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean	45 min
Jul 6, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville	32 min
Jul 6, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	31 min
Jul 6, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder	50 min
Jul 6, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean	63 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.