Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1998, 6:04 PM CDT for McIntosh 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
- Jul 6, 1998, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1998, 6:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County McIntosh County, ND
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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 12:00Z, 11.1 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
757 WUUS1 KBIS 062305 RRA SVRBIS NDC051-062335- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 604 PM CDT MON JUL 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 635 PM CDT * AT 603 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 55 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK OR OVER THE TOWN OF HAGUE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ZEELAND AT 615 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LM
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, 13 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
LLPLocal storm report, Jul 6, 5:51 PM CDT, 13 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
LLPLocal storm report, Jul 6, 5:51 PM CDT, 13 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
LLPThe 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, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Renville | 32 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
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.