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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 10, 1996Emmons County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 1996, 10:07 PM CDT for Emmons County, North Dakota. It was in force for 53 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: Jul 10, 1996, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Emmons County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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, 10:40 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Strasburg, 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 64 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 110309
TORBIS
NDC029-110400-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1007 PM CDT WED JUL 10 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN EMMONS COUNTY
 
AT 1005 PM CDT...PUBLIC REPORTS OF A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF LINTON
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS ON THE WEST SIDE OF
LINTON AND NEAR STRASBURG BY 1030 PM.
 
AT 1003 PM...3/4 TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN LINTON.
 
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, 8:06 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

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.