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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 10, 1996Bottineau County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 1996, 7:27 PM CDT for Bottineau County, North Dakota. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 1996, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Bottineau County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 110026
TORBIS
NDC009-110115-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
727 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 NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...WESTERN BOTTINEAU COUNTY
 
AT 725 PM CDT FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN SPOTTED 5 MILES WEST OF
WESTHOPE...30 MILES WEST OF BOTTINEAU. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A TORNADO
IS LIKELY FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN WESTHOPE AND IN WESTERN
BOTTINEAU COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER NOW. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
 
 
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.B
 
 
 
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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, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Oliver	50 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

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.