Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 12, 1992, 4:38 PM CDT for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 1992, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1992, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burleigh County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBIS 122138
TORBIS
NDC015-122215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
438 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
WESTERN BURLEIGH
AT 435 PM CDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS OVER THE NORTH PART OF BISMARCK.
THE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER
IF AVAILABLE...OTHERWISE TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES.
RSLWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 12:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1205 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 1985 ...COLD AIR FUNNELS REPORTED OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA... AT 1050 AM MDT A COLD AIR FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 10 MILES NORTH OF BOWMAN. ANOTHER FUNNEL WAS REPORTED 5 MINUTES LATER AT AMIDON...25 MILES NORTH OF BOWMAN. COLD AIR FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THEY ARE FORMED BY THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS WHEN UNIQUE METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS ARE MET. MILD UNSTABLE AIR IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE IS CAPPED BY COOL UNSTABLE AIR ALOFT. AS THE SHOWER DEVELOPS UP AND DOWN DRAFTS ARE FORMED. IF THE RIGHT CONDITIONS ARE PRESENT THE MOVING DRAFTS OF AIR BEGIN TO ROTATE AND A VISIBLE FUNNEL IS FORMED. COLD AIR FUNNELS GENERALLY DO NOT REACH THE EARTH`S SURFACE AND ARE USUALLY SHORT LIVED. THEY HAVE..HOWEVER..ON OCCASIONS TOUCHED THE GROUND AND CAUSED DAMAGE. BECAUSE OF THIS POSSIBILITY YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER WHEN COLD AIR FUNNELS ARE OBSERVED. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLD AIR FUNNELS UNTIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON. IF YOU LIVE IN THE COUNTIES OF BOWMAN... SLOPE...HETTINGER AND ADAMS COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST NORTH D>AKOTA YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF COLD AIR FUNNELS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER. LM
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 1:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 135 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 1985 ...COLD AIR FUNNEL REPORTED OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA... AT 130 PM CDT A COLD AIR FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC IN THE CHARLSON VICINITY OVER NORTHEAST MCKENZIE COUNTY. COLD AIR FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THEY ARE FORMED BY THUNDERSTORMS OR RAIN SHOWERS WHEN UNIQUE METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS ARE MET. MILD UNSTABLE AIR IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE IS CAPPED BY COOL UNSTABLE AIR ALOFT. AS THE SHOWER DEVELOPS UP AND DOWN DRAFTS ARE FORMED. IF THE RIGHT CONDITIONS ARE PRESENT THE MOVING DRAFTS OF AIR BEGIN TO ROTATE AND A VISIBLE FUNNEL IS FORMED. COLD AIR FUNNELS GENERALLY DO NOT REACH THE EARTH`S SURFACE AND ARE USUALLY SHORT LIVED. THEY HAVE..HOWEVER..ON OCCASIONS TOUCHED THE GROUND AND CAUSED DAMAGE. BECAUSE OF THIS POSSIBILITY YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER WHEN COLD AIR FUNNELS ARE OBSERVED. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLD AIR FUNNELS UNTIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON. IF YOU LIVE IN MCKENZIE...WILLIAMS...DUNN... GOLDEN VALLEY OR BILLINGS COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF COLD AIJR FUNNELS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER. KENNEDY
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.