Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 2, 1995, 5:56 PM CDT for Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 2, 1995, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burleigh County, ND, Morton County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado 0 | Bismarck, 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -484 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 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 022257 TORBIS NDC015-059-022345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 556 PM CDT WED AUG 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...SOUTHERN BURLEIGH COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN MORTON COUNTY AT 556 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK MOVNING EAST AT 35 MPH. WINDS OF 60 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR THE SOUTHERN PART OF BISMARCK AND THE TORNADO SHOULD PASS TO THE SOUTH OF BISMARCK. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OFF 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 66 min |
| Aug 2, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Oliver | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 54 min |
| Aug 2, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.