Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1995

Tornado Warning 2, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 3, 1995Emmons County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 1995, 6:58 PM CDT for Emmons County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 1995, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Emmons County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 3, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Linton, ND

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 032359
TORBIS
NDC029-040030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
658 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...WESTERN EMMONS COUNTY
 
AT 6:55 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
BISMARCK...OR 8 MILES WEST OF LINTON. THE STORM WAS HALFWAY BETWEEN
LINTON AND THE MISSOURI RIVER...JUST NORTH OF HIGHWAY 13. THE STORM WAS 
ASTATIONARY.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
ABELING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	58 min
Jul 3, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Hettinger	41 min
Jul 3, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	39 min
Jul 3, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	40 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 1995 Every tornado warning in 1995 Tornadoes in 1995

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.