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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 26, 1998Dickey County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1998, 3:03 PM CDT for Dickey County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 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: Jun 26, 1998, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1998, 3:35 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Dickey County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 26, 3:20 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Oakes, ND	Report from insurance adjuster.

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
Jun 26, 1:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -312 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 262002 RRA
TORBIS
NDC021-262035-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
303 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN DICKEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 335 PM CDT

* AT 258 PM CDT... SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF
  FULLERTON... MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MPH .

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FULLERTON..NOW
  OAKES...320 PM CDT

A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! GO TO THE BASEMENT! IF A BASEMENT IS
NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

RVE


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings	62 min
Jun 26, 3:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	31 min
Jun 26, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	32 min
Jun 26, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burke	34 min
Jun 26, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	35 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.