Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1998, 8:52 PM CDT for Barnes County, North Dakota. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 10, 1998, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 9:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barnes County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Oriska, 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 1642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
496 WFUS1 KFAR 110153 RRA TORFAR NDC003-110225- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 852 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BARNES COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 925 PM CDT * AT 850 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF VALLEY CITY OR NEAR ORISKA MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ORISKA 855 PM CDT DO NOT OUTRUN A TORNADO IN YOUR CAR. LEAVE YOUR CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING OR SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 28 min |
| Jun 10, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Sargent | 32 min |
| Jun 10, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Sargent | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Traill | 32 min |
| Jun 10, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.