Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 1994, 2:55 PM CDT for Kidder County, North Dakota. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1994, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1994, 3:21 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kidder County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIS 031955 TORBIS NDC043-032030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 255 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...CENTRAL KIDDER COUNTY AT 250 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND NORTH OF STEELE...NEAR HIGHWAY THREE. THIS IS ABOUT 40 MILES EAST OF BISMARCK. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST/NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. &
What 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 3, 2:23 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
NDZ019>023-034>036-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 220 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 1994 ...WEAK FUNNELS HAVE BEEN REPORTED OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... AT 215 PM CDT..FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED BY SEVERAL OBSERVERS IN KIDDER COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF STEELE...OVER ABOUT 40 MILES EAST OF BISMARCK. THE FUNNEL WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE WEAK FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THEY ARE FORMED BY THUNDERSHOWERS WHEN UNIQUE METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS ARE MET. THESE FUNNELS GENERALLY DO NOT REACH THE GROUND AND ARE USUALLY SHORT LIVED. THEY HAVE...HOWEVER...ON RARE OCCASION TOUCHED THE GROUND AND CAUSED DAMAGE. BECASUE OF THIS POSSIBILIT^Y...SEEK SHELTER IF THESE WEAK FUNNELS ARE OBSERVED IN YOUR AREA. < FORS
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:37 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
NDZ013>006-011>014-019>025-035>037-042-045>047-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 235 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... AT 230 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR IN BISMARCK SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR HAZELTON IN EMMONS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK TO NEAR WEBSTER IN RAMSEY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF DEVILS LAKE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST/NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STRONGER STORMS WERE LOCATED IN WESTERN KIDDER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 40 MILES EAST OF BISMARCK. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR WEBSTER IN RAMSEY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF DEVILS LAKE. THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. < FORS
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.