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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 14, 1998Pierce County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1998, 5:11 AM CDT for Pierce County, North Dakota. It was in force for 44 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, 5:11 AM CDT (10:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1998, 5:55 AM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Pierce County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 1998-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 140 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 1998-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
NDZ020-034-140415-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
400 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EXPIRED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED THROUGH WESTERND OLIVER AND
WESTERN MORTON COUNTY HAS MOVED EASTWARD. THEREFORE THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

FRANSEN
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
NDZ020-034-140415-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
400 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EXPIRED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED THROUGH WESTERND OLIVER AND
WESTERN MORTON COUNTY HAS MOVED EASTWARD. THEREFORE THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

FRANSEN
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:30 AM CDT, 41 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 12:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGolden Valley47 min
Jul 14, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie60 min
Jul 14, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBillings60 min
Jul 14, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBowman, Slope62 min
Jul 14, 3:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton, Oliver47 min
Jul 14, 3:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISHettinger47 min
Jul 14, 4:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean, Oliver61 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.