Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1998, 2:18 AM MDT for Hettinger County, North Dakota. It was in force for 47 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 14, 1998, 2:18 AM MDT (08:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1998, 3:05 AM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hettinger County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 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 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 140817 RRA SVRBIS NDC041-140905- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 318 AM CDT (218 AM MDT) TUE JUL 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HETTINGER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 305 AM MDT (405 AM CDT) * AT 215 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NEW ENGLAND OR 22 MILES SOUTH OF DICKINSON... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... REGENT AT 225 AM MDT MOTT AT 235 AM MDT DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWZS! TSW/WA
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
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 12:30 AM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
NDZ031-140645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 130 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS ENDED... AT 1225 AM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED THROUGH GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. GOLVA REPORTED A 60 MPH WIND GUST ALONG WITH QUARTER INCH HAIL AND A HALF INCH OF RAIN IN HALF AN HOUR. FRANSEN
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 1:25 AM MDT, 53 minutes before
NDZ032-140740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 225 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE IN BILLINGS COUNTY HAVE MOVED EASTWARD. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED. FRANSEN
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 1:25 AM MDT, 53 minutes before
NDZ032-140740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 225 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE IN BILLINGS COUNTY HAVE MOVED EASTWARD. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED. FRANSEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 11:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Golden Valley | 47 min |
| 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, 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
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.