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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 7, 1995Dickey County, LaMoure County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1995, 10:54 PM CDT for Dickey County, LaMoure County, North Dakota. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 1995, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 1995, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dickey County, ND, LaMoure County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 1115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1429 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 080357
TORBIS
NDC021-045-080445-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1054 PM CDT FRI JUL 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...EASTERN DICKEY COUNTY...LA MOURE COUNTY
 
AT 1055 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF
BERLIN OR 26 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JAMESTOWN. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST 30 MPH. TOWNS IN ITS PATH ARE BERLIN AND FULLERTON.
 
 
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 BASEM"ENT 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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	48 min
Jul 7, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	26 min
Jul 7, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	53 min
Jul 7, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	69 min
Jul 7, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Wells	45 min
Jul 7, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	45 min
Jul 8, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	64 min
Jul 8, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	62 min
Jul 8, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster	31 min
Jul 8, 4:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.