Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 1998, 4:51 PM CDT for Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 6, 1998, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1998, 5:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ward County, ND
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 5:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Minot, ND | |
| Jul 6, 5:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Minot, ND |
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 nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1386 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
216 WFUS1 KBIS 062152 RRA TORBIS NDC101-062240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 451 PM CDT MON JUL 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 540 PM CDT * AT 450 PM CDT...SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF DOUGLAS...25 MILES SOUTH OF MINOT... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SAWYER AT 505 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR JP MARTIN &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burke | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, Williams | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 10:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Williams | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail, Ward | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Renville | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McIntosh | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Kidder | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean | 63 min |
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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.