Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 14, 1998Cavalier County, Pembina County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1998, 6:41 AM CDT for Cavalier County, Pembina County, North Dakota. It was in force for 29 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, 6:41 AM CDT (11:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1998, 7:10 AM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cavalier County, ND, Pembina County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:36 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 300 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.

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 3:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
338 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998

FIRST PERIOD DISCUSSION...BKN LINE OF STRMS HAD FIRED UP FM SRN
GRIGGS CNTY TO NRN CLAY CNTY. MOVG TO THE ENE ARND 30KT. AREA
VAD WNDS SUGGEST CONVERGENCE BLO ABT 10 THSD FT AND VEERING. ADAP
SHOWING AN E-W GRAD OF MXG RATIOS OVR ERN ND WITH LWR VALUES OVR ND
AND NRN MN AND HI VALUES OVR ERN SD. GRIDDED DATA SHOWS HIR
THETA-E AND MXG RATIOS TO MOV N AS WELL AS MSTR TRANSPORT.
TIME X-SXN HAS BEST VRT MOTN ARND 18Z FOR FAR AND GFK AND SHOULD
BE BEST TIME FOR CONVECTION. MOS TEMPS SEEM A LITTLE LOW CONSIDERING
HIGHS WERE IN THE MID 90S OR BETTER IN ERN SD YSTRDY. THINK
HIGHS WL BE ARND 90 IN BDE, ROX, TVF, HCO, DVL...LWR 90S AT GFK,
CKN, FAR, DTL, FFM, PKD, VLY CITY.

HOPPES

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
400 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998

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

0310 AM    PARK RAPIDS         MN   HUBBARD COUNTY S.O. REPORTED
           HUBBARD                  .75 INCH HAIL

BRAZZELL
Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
400 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY2 LOCATION....

0310 AM    PARK RAPIDS         MN   HUBBARD COUNTY S.O. REPORTED
           HUBBARD                  .75 INCH HAIL IN PARK RAPIDS

BRAZZELL
Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
400 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998

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

0310 AM    PARK RAPIDS         MN   HUBBARD COUNTY S.O. REPORTED
           HUBBARD                  .75 INCH HAIL

BRAZZELL
Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
400 AM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY2 LOCATION....

0310 AM    PARK RAPIDS         MN   HUBBARD COUNTY S.O. REPORTED
           HUBBARD                  .75 INCH HAIL IN PARK RAPIDS

BRAZZELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 3:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFHubbard48 min
Jul 14, 5:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPennington, Polk33 min
Jul 14, 7:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFMarshall33 min
Jul 14, 8:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClay, Norman31 min
Jul 14, 8:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRoseau31 min
Jul 14, 11:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami32 min
Jul 14, 11:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClearwater, Polk34 min
Jul 14, 12:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami, Hubbard32 min
Jul 14, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFWilkin31 min
Jul 14, 1:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wilkin34 min
Jul 14, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail34 min
Jul 14, 2:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail34 min
Jul 14, 3:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFOtter Tail118 min
Jul 14, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail50 min
Jul 14, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail49 min
Jul 14, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail32 min
Jul 14, 5:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFOtter Tail3 hr
Jul 14, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker, Clay35 min
Jul 14, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail64 min
Jul 14, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClearwater, Hubbard35 min
Jul 14, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGrant32 min
Jul 14, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker34 min
Jul 14, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGrant34 min
Jul 14, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFWilkin33 min
Jul 14, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGrant43 min
Jul 14, 7:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCass34 min
Jul 14, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRichland49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.