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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 28, 1996Burleigh County, Sheridan County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 1996, 6:06 PM CDT for Burleigh County, Sheridan County, North Dakota. It was in force for 39 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 28, 1996, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties Burleigh County, ND, Sheridan County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBIS 282307
TORBIS
NDC015-083-290000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
606 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 1996
 
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
 
   ...NORTHERN BURLEIGH COUNTY...SOUTHWESTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY
 
AT 604 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS 8 MILES SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF MERCER...
40 MILES NORTH OF BISMARCK. IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
THE CITY OF BISMARCK IS NOT IN THIS WARNING.
 
THIS TORNADO SHOULD STAY MAINLY IN RURAL FARM AREAS.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
JP MARTIN
 
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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 27, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	34 min
Jul 28, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	46 min
Jul 28, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	67 min
Jul 28, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce	59 min
Jul 28, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Sheridan	44 min
Jul 28, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean	20 min
Jul 28, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Wells	49 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.