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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 30, 1996Grant County, Morton County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 1996, 8:58 PM MDT for Grant County, Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 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: Jun 30, 1996, 8:58 PM MDT (02:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1996, 9:30 PM MDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

Counties Grant County, ND, Morton County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 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 010256
TORBIS
NDC059-037-010330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
958 PM CDT (858 PM MDT) SUN JUN 30 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT (930 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...WESTERN MORTON COUNTY
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY
 
AT 950 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
GLEN ULLIN...OR 55 MILES WEST OF BISMARCK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 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.
 
 
LEBLANG
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 6:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	58 min
Jun 30, 6:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	57 min
Jun 30, 7:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	43 min
Jun 30, 7:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	57 min
Jun 30, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Oliver	45 min
Jun 30, 8:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	52 min
Jun 30, 8:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton, Stark	57 min
Jun 30, 9:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	42 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.