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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 20, 1995McHenry County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 1995, 2:46 PM CDT for McHenry County, North Dakota. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 1995, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County McHenry County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1456 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 201951 COR
TORBIS
NDC049-202015-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED FOR MOVEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
246 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

   ...NORTHERN MCHENRY COUNTY

AT 345 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG
ROTATION 15 MILES EAST OF MINOT. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS ALSO REPORTED AT
NORWICH. A TORNADO IS BELEIVED TO BE ON THE GROUND NORTH OF NORWICH
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

IF YOU LIVE IN UPHAM OR BANTRY THEN YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO.
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.

NOAH
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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

Local storm report, Jun 20, 1:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
118 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1252 PM    HANNOVER                  ND   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/20/95   OLIVER                         ALSO HAD HAIL OF UNKNOWN
                                          SIZE (ESTIMATED 0.5 INCH)

1256 PM    CENTER                    ND   70 MPH WIND GUST
06/20/95   OLIVER                         LARGE TREES DOWN

0103 PM    NEW SALEM                 ND   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/20/95   MORTON                         *** 1 INJ ***
                                          SEMI FLIPPED OVER ON
                                          INTERSTATE OVERPASS (WIND
                                          ESTIMATED)

NOAH

Local storm report, Jun 20, 1:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
118 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1252 PM    HANNOVER                  ND   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/20/95   OLIVER                         ALSO HAD HAIL OF UNKNOWN
                                          SIZE (ESTIMATED 0.5 INCH)

1256 PM    CENTER                    ND   70 MPH WIND GUST
06/20/95   OLIVER                         LARGE TREES DOWN

0103 PM    NEW SALEM                 ND   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/20/95   MORTON                         *** 1 INJ ***
                                          SEMI FLIPPED OVER ON
                                          INTERSTATE OVERPASS (WIND
                                          ESTIMATED)

NOAH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	51 min
Jun 19, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	30 min
Jun 19, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	68 min
Jun 20, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	61 min
Jun 20, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton, Oliver	48 min
Jun 20, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	46 min
Jun 20, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	63 min
Jun 20, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	36 min
Jun 20, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	31 min
Jun 20, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Wells	52 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.