Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 1998, 8:17 PM CDT for Pembina County, Walsh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 33 min. 3 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
- Aug 26, 1998, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1998, 8:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pembina County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 8:43 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Grafton, ND | |
| Aug 26, 8:43 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Grafton, ND | Baseball-sized hail fell at Oakwood, ND, breaking windows and damaging cars. |
| Aug 26, 8:43 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Grafton, ND | One inch hail fell at Auburn, 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 815 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
153 WFUS1 KFAR 270119 RRA TORFAR NDC067-099-270150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 817 PM CDT WED AUG 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PEMBINA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA NORTHEASTERN WALSH COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 850 PM CDT * AT 818 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATED A TORNADO ON THE PEMBINA/WALSH COUNTY LINE 8 MILES NORTH OF GRAFTON. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... TO THE NORTH OF GRAFTON ALONG HIGHWAY 81 THROUGH 830 PM CDT DRAYTON AT 840 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWAY OR A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. KELLENBENZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pembina | 35 min |
| Aug 26, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pembina | 34 min |
| Aug 26, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pembina, Walsh | 31 min |
| Aug 26, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Walsh | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Walsh | 33 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.