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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 26, 1998Burke County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1998, 5:36 PM CDT for Burke County, North Dakota. It was in force for 34 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
Jun 26, 1998, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1998, 6:10 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Burke County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 263 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 12:00Z on 1998-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1140 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 12:00Z on 1998-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 238 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-311 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

611 
WFUS1 KBIS 262235 RRA
TORBIS
NDC013-262310-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BURKE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 610 PM CDT

* AT 530 PM CDT... AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES
  WEST OF PORTAL OR 65 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINOT            ...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PORTAL AT 535 PM CDT

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

LEBLANG


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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jun 26, 4:44 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
444 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0255 PM    3 W FULLERTON             ND   TORNADO
06/26/98   DICKEY                         TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED
                                          DOWN

FRANSEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBillings62 min
Jun 26, 3:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMercer31 min
Jun 26, 1:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcIntosh32 min
Jun 26, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WarningBISDickey32 min
Jun 26, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau35 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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.