Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at May 13, 1998, 5:58 PM MDT for Stark 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
- May 13, 1998, 5:58 PM MDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1998, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stark County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 6:18 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Richardton, ND | Brief touch down. Location is also 10 northwest of Hebron. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Slope | 48 min |
| May 13, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn | 64 min |
| May 13, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stark | 45 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.