Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1998, 7:12 PM CDT for McKenzie County, North Dakota. It was in force for 33 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, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County McKenzie County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 461 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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, 1 hour 21 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, 1 hour 21 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, 1 hour 21 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 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Sheridan | 44 min |
| Jul 6, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Sheridan | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 51 min |
| Jul 6, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 47 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.