Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 1988
18 tornado warnings in 1988. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 18
- Busiest month
- July7 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- August 17, 19885 tornado warnings
Over time
By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Hettinger, Stark | 26 min |
| May 7, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Steele, Traill | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Traill | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Nelson, Walsh | 57 min |
| Jul 5, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 57 min |
| Jul 5, 11:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Divide | 27 min |
| Jul 12, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass | 60 min |
| Jul 12, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass | 60 min |
| Jul 12, 10:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Richland | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 11:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass, Traill | 66 min |
| Aug 1, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Emmons | 40 min |
| Aug 14, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McHenry | 29 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, 9:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Rolette | 39 min |
| Aug 16, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Rolette | 31 min |
| Aug 16, 11:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Ramsey, Towner | 29 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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.