Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1998, 11:38 PM MDT for Golden Valley County, North Dakota. It was in force for 47 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 13, 1998, 11:38 PM MDT (05:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1998, 12:25 AM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Golden Valley County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 235 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:41 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 12:14 AM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Golva, 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 13, 11:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIS 140538 RRA SVRBIS NDC033-140625- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1238 AM CDT (1138 PM MDT) TUE JUL 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1225 AM MDT (125 AM CDT) * AT 1135 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF BEACH OR 65 MILES WEST OF DICKINSON... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BEACH AT 1150 PM MDT TROTTERS AT 1153 PM MDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWARY FROM WINDOWS! WA/TSW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 12:20 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 12:25 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 12:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman, Slope | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 2:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton, Oliver | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 2:18 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 3:04 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Oliver | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 4:11 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce | 44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.