Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1993, 5:59 PM CDT for Burleigh County, Sheridan County, North Dakota. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1993, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burleigh County, ND, Sheridan County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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 222259
TORBIS
NDC083-015-222345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
559 PM CDT TUE JUN 22 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
SOUTHERN SHERIDAN...NORTHERN BURLEIGH
AT 555 PM CDT...PUBLIC REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO LOCATED
5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
TOWNS IN TH PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE REGAN AMD MC CLUSKY.
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
FLOOZR...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES.
ABELINGWhat 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, Jun 22, 2:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
NDZ001>018-222230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 240 PM CDT TUE JUN 22 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EAST AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE WEST... NORTH DAKOTA WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE AN ACTIVE WEATHER DAY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WILL PLAGUE THE EAST END OF THE STATE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE WEST HALF. AT 240 PM CDT WEATHER RADARS ACROSS NORTH DAKOTA INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG STORMS FROM THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE TO NORTH OF DEVILS LAKE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 30 MPH AND WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. THE RADARS ALSO INDICTED STORM DEVELOPMENT FROM NORTHEAST OF DICKINSON TO EAST OF WILLISTON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WERE PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE WEST...SOME OF THESE MAY PRODUC>E DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL AS WELL AS PRODUCING SOME HEAVY RAIN. EVERYONE ACROSS NORTH DAKOTA SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE DEVELOPING WEATHER OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. KAS
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
NDZ002-003-222040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 240 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA... AT 230 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN WILLISTON INDICATED DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS JUST EAST OF WILLISTON. AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 EAST OF WILLISTON NEAR THE TOWN OF TIOGA. ADDITIONAL STORMS EXTENDED SOUTH OF TIOGA ACROSS LAKE SAKAKAWEA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THE STORMS ARE LIKLY TO PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WIND ALONG WITH DEADLY LIGHTNING. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. KENNEDY LEWIS
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
NDZ001>018-222230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 320 PM CDT TUE JUN 22 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE WEST HALF OF NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 10 PM CDT OR 9 PM MDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE WEST HALF OF NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON. THERE WILL ALSO BE STORM DEVELOPMENT IN WYOMING AND SOUTH DAKOTA THAT WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. DUE TO THE ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY OF THE AIR OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED. AT 315 PM CDT BISMARCKS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS FROM WESTERN MORTON COUNTY...WEST OF MANDAN TO SOUTHERN BURKE COUNTY NORTHEAST OF WILLISTON. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS LINE WERE IN CENTRAL MERCER COUNTY IN THE BEULAH AREA. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. ALL OF THE STORMS IN THE LINE WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 35 MPH AND ANY OF THEM COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. KAS
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
NDZ002-003-222140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 345 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA... AT 340 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN WILLISTON INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 65 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLISON NEAR COLUMBUS TO 40 MILES SOUTH OF MINOT. THE STRONGEST IN THE LINE WERE 65 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLISTON JUST NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS AND 45 MILES EAST OF WILLISTON JUST EAST OF WHITE EARTH. THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LINE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A SECOND AREA OF RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER THE MONTANA NORTH DAKOTA BORDER JUST WEST OF WILLISTON ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT P30 MPH. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 10 PM CDT. KENNEDY
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
NDZ001>018-222330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 430 PM CDT TUE JUN 22 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE WEST HALF OF NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 10 PM CDT OR 9 PM MDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING... AT 420 PM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING THROUGH THE CENTRAL PORTION OF NORTH DAKOTA FROM 25 MILES WEST OF MINOT SOUTHWARD TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED IN CENTRAL MERCE<R COUNTY...40 MILES SOUTH OF MINOT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
NDZ002-003-222250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND 445 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA... AT 440 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN WILLISTON INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF MINOT TO 55 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINOT. THE AREA EXTENDED FURTHER NORTHWEST INTO CENTRAL SASKATCHEWAN. THE STRONGER STORMS IN THE AREA WERE JUST SOUTH OF MINOT AND OVER THE TOWN OF GRANO...20 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF MINOT. A SECOND AREA OF RAINSHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER THE MONTANA - NORTH DAKOTA BORDER JUST WEST OF WILLISTON. THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 10 PM CDT. KENNEDY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Foster | 31 min |
| Jun 21, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Eddy | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Sheridan | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder, Logan | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Sioux | 51 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.