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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 30, 1996Oliver County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1996, 6:27 PM CDT for Oliver County, North Dakota. It was in force for 33 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
May 30, 1996, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Oliver County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1996-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1996-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 151 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1016 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 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 302327
TORBIS
NDC065-310000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
627 PM CDT THU MAY 30 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...EASTERN OLIVER COUNTY
 
AT 625 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
CENTER...25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANDAN.
 
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH.
 
SANGER AND PRICE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO.
 
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WarningBISMorton25 min
May 30, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISOliver63 min
May 30, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningBISOliver26 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996

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.