Alert archive / North Dakota / 1988
Weather alerts in North Dakota, August 1988
34 weather alerts in August 1988, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 34
- Warnings
- 34
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 17, 198811 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Emmons | 40 min |
| Aug 1, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Logan | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 42 min |
| Aug 10, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ramsey | 31 min |
| Aug 10, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Traill | 64 min |
| Aug 10, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 65 min |
| Aug 11, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass, Traill | 58 min |
| Aug 11, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Dickey | 66 min |
| Aug 11, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 57 min |
| Aug 11, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Golden Valley | 33 min |
| Aug 11, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Golden Valley | 28 min |
| Aug 13, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Dickey, Sargent | 60 min |
| Aug 13, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Traill | 63 min |
| Aug 14, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 68 min |
| Aug 14, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean | 40 min |
| Aug 14, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McHenry | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Mountrail, Williams | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Benson, Pierce | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Renville | 28 min |
| Aug 16, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry | 46 min |
| Aug 16, 9:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Rolette | 39 min |
| Aug 16, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce, Rolette | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Rolette | 31 min |
| Aug 16, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Towner | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 11:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Ramsey, Towner | 29 min |
| Aug 16, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ramsey | 53 min |
| Aug 17, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Steele, Traill | 65 min |
| Aug 20, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 57 min |
| Aug 20, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 49 min |
| Aug 22, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 42 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 27 |
| Tornado Warning | 7 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bottineau County5
- Traill County4
- McHenry County4
- Ramsey County3
- Cass County3
- Rolette County3
- Dickey County2
- Golden Valley County2
- Pierce County2
- Towner County2
- Divide County2
- Emmons County1
- Logan County1
- Barnes County1
- Sargent County1
- McLean County1
- Burke County1
- Mountrail County1
- Williams County1
- Benson County1
- Renville County1
- Nelson County1
- Grand Forks County1
- Steele County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.