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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 10, 1996McIntosh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 1996, 8:06 PM CDT for McIntosh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 69 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, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County McIntosh County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 110108
TORBIS
NDC051-110215-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
806 PM CDT WED JUL 10 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...WESTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY
 
AT 805 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 44 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
BISMARCK...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF WISHEK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR WISHEK BY 830 PM AND NEAR ASHLEY BY 840 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 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.
 
 
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, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Oliver	50 min
Jul 10, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bottineau	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.