Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 1993, 6:25 PM CDT for McLean County, Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1993, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1993, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McLean County, ND, Ward County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 385 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
- 99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1212 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 222325
TORBIS
NDC055-101-230000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
625 PM CDT THU JUL 22 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
NORTH CENTRAL MCLEAN...
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
SOUTHEAST WARD...
AT 620 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR DOUGLAS...30 MILES SOUTH
OF MINOT MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
.
TOWNS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE MAX AND BENEDICT.
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.
THIS STORM MAY ALSO CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND
UNDERPASSES.
LEBLANGWhat 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 22, 4:25 PM CDT, 2 hours before
NDZ005>014-222220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 420 PM CDT THU JUL 22 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM RUMBLING ACROSS EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR A PORTION OF EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... AT 415 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORT YATES...OR 60 MILES SOUTH OF BISMARCK...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE MISSOURI RIVER AND INTO EMMONS COUNTY BY 425 PM CDT. TOWNS NEAR ITS PATH INCLUDE LINTON... STRASBURG...AND HAZELTON. PEA TO MABLE SIZE HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAINS WHICH MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING....AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM. ANOTHER BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED FROM 40 MILES EAST OF BISMACRK...NORTHEAST THROUGH THE DEVILS LAKE AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING AND SIGNIFICANT PONDING OF WATER WITH THEIR PASSAGE AS THEY MOVE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. REMEMBER...EVERYONE IN LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGH GROUND SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP. IF FLOODING OCCURS...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. ALSO...WATCH OUT FOR WASHED OUT BRIDGES AND CULVERTS. LEBLANG
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 5:40 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
NDZ005>014-222320- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 535 PM CDT THU JUL 22 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING ACROSS EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... AT 530 PM...AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...ALONG THE SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER. THIS ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN EMMONS COUNTY...60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK ...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE STRASBURG...HAGUE AND ZEELAND. THE TOWN OF WISHEK SHOULD BE AFFECTED BY 600 PM. HEAVY RAINS...CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED IN THIS AREA UNTIL 700 PM. ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR A PORTION OF EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... MEANWHILE LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...FROM ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH DEVILS LAKE...WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER ONE TO TWHO INCHES OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED STUTSMAN...FOSTER...EDDY AND RAMSEY COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITY OF DEVILS LAKE...BETWEEN NOW AND 900 PM. RCM
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 6:17 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
NDZ005-006-230015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 615 PM CDT THU JUL 22 1993 ...A DEVELOPING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MINOT SOUTHWARD... AT 610 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED FROM MINOT TO 50 MILES SOUTH OF MINOT. THE MOST INTENSE CELL WAS 30 MILES SOUTH OF MINOT AND SHOULD MOVE INTO THE TOWN OF MAX BY 630 PM. ANOTHER STRONG LITTLE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE CITY OF MINOT. GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE SMALL THUNDERSTORMS. DUE TO RECENT DEVELOPMENT...NO MOVEMENT HAS BEEN DETERMINED. < RCM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 64 min |
| Jul 21, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Williams | 56 min |
| Jul 22, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 62 min |
| Jul 22, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 3:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | Morton | 87 min |
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.