Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT for Oliver County, North Dakota. It was in force for 50 min. 5 reports 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 10, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oliver County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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 10, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Stanton, ND | |
| Jul 10, 7:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Center, ND | |
| Jul 10, 7:59 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Center, ND | |
| Jul 10, 8:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Sanger, ND | |
| Jul 10, 8:22 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Mandan, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIS 110028 TORBIS NDC065-110115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 725 PM CDT WED JUL 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...WESTERN OLIVER COUNTY AT 725 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF BISMARCK IN EXTREME NORTHWEST OLIVER COUNTY...ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF BEULAH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR THE TOWN OF HANNOVER AROUND 750 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNNITURE. 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. ABELING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 65 min |
| Jul 10, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Emmons | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 48 min |
| Jul 10, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McIntosh | 69 min |
| Jul 10, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton | 61 min |
| Jul 10, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McIntosh | 45 min |
| Jul 10, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Sioux | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Emmons | 53 min |
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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.