Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Oct 6, 1994, 5:58 PM CDT for Emmons County, North Dakota. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 1994, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 1994, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Emmons County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 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 062258
TORBIS
NDC029-062345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
558 PM CDT THU OCT 6 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
EMMONS
AT 555 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS SIGHTED JUST SOUTH OF STRASBURG OR
50 MILE SOUTH OF BISMARCK. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTH AT AN
UNKNOWN SPEED. THE TOWN OF HAGUE IS IN ITS PATH.
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.
LMWhat 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, Oct 6, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
NDZ001>053-MNZ001>003-062200- SPECIAL WEATHER STSTEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 250 PM CDT THU OCT 06 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON... A DEEP STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING A MIXTURE OF THUNDERSTORMS...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN TO NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. FIRST...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 9 PM CDT...ROUGHLY INCLUDING THE AREA FROM NEW SALEM EAST TO VALLEY CITY AND SOUTH OF I-94. STRONG THUDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN SOUTH DAKOTA...AND MOVE NORTH INTO SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA. THE INTENSE STORM SYSTEM WILL ALSO CAUSE STROING NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH ACROSS THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE STATE...AND A WIND ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE STATE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... AND WILL BE EXTENDED INTO THIS EVENING. DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING INTO WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. FINALLY THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS WESTERN AND SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE LIKELY BY MORNING WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. PERSONS TRAVELING ACROSS WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. AND TRAVELERS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH DAKOTA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR A MIXTURE OF HEAVY RAIN...AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST. ABELING
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 2:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
NDZ001>053-MNZ001>003-062200- SPECIAL WEATHER STSTEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 250 PM CDT THU OCT 06 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON... A DEEP STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING A MIXTURE OF THUNDERSTORMS...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN TO NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. FIRST...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 9 PM CDT...ROUGHLY INCLUDING THE AREA FROM NEW SALEM EAST TO VALLEY CITY AND SOUTH OF I-94. STRONG THUDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN SOUTH DAKOTA...AND MOVE NORTH INTO SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA. THE INTENSE STORM SYSTEM WILL ALSO CAUSE STROING NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH ACROSS THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE STATE...AND A WIND ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE STATE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... AND WILL BE EXTENDED INTO THIS EVENING. DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING INTO WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. FINALLY THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS WESTERN AND SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE LIKELY BY MORNING WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. PERSONS TRAVELING ACROSS WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. AND TRAVELERS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH DAKOTA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR A MIXTURE OF HEAVY RAIN...AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH SEVERE THUrNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST. ABELING
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 5:47 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
NDZ001>053-MNZ001>003-062330- SPECIAL WEATHER STSTEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 550 PM CDT THU OCT 06 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON... A VERY INTENSE STORM CENTERED IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA IS BRINGING A VARIETY OF WEATHER TO NORTH DAKOTA THIS EVENING. TORNADOS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL UNTIL 9 PM CDT. AT 540 PM CDT...RADARS SHOWED SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. ONE AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN GRANT COUNTY 40 TO 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK. THIS AREA WAS MOVING WEST 25 MPH. OTHER STORN THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EMMONS COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK. A VERY STRONG STORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LINTON OR 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK. THIS STORM WAS MOVING WEST 25 MPH. IN THE EXTREME WEST...NORTHERLY WINDS WERE GUSTING BETWEEN 35 AND 45 MPH AT WILLISTON...DICKINSON...BOWMAN AND HETTINGER. THE STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT..AND PERSONS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CATION. LM
Special weather statement, Oct 6, 5:50 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
NDZ001>053-MNZ001>003-062330- SPECIAL WEATHER STSTEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 550 PM CDT THU OCT 06 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON... A VERY INTENSE STORM CENTERED IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA IS BRINGING A VARIETY OF WEATHER TO NORTH DAKOTA THIS EVENING. TORNADOS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL UNTIL 9 PM CDT. AT 540 PM CDT...RADARS SHOWED SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. ONE AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN GRANT COUNTY 40 TO 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK. THIS AREA WAS MOVING WEST 25 MPH. OTHER STORN THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EMMONS COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK. A VERY STRONG STORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LINTON OR 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK. THIS STORM WAS MOVING WEST 25 MPH. IN THE EXTREME WEST...NORTHERLY WINDS WERE GUSTING BETWEEN 35 AND 45 MPH AT WILLISTON...DICKINSON...BOWMAN AND HETTINGER. THE STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT..AND PERSONS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CATION. LM
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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.