Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 741

July 13, 199820 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 13, 1998, 11:30 PM MDT for 20 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1998, 11:30 PM MDT (05:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1998, 4:00 AM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burke County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Renville County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:29 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.

Warnings issued inside it

7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 11:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISGolden Valley47 min
Jul 14, 12:20 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie60 min
Jul 14, 12:25 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBillings60 min
Jul 14, 12:43 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBowman, Slope62 min
Jul 14, 2:13 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMorton, Oliver47 min
Jul 14, 2:18 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISHettinger47 min
Jul 14, 3:04 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean, Oliver61 min

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 3:30 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCDickey, Richland, Sargent6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 1998Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.