Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1997

Tornado Warning 1, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 19, 1997Bottineau County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 1997, 1:47 PM CDT for Bottineau County, North Dakota. It was in force for 58 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: Jun 19, 1997, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1997, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Bottineau County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 19, 2:40 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Westhope, ND	Another weak tornado formed a few hours after the first. This tornado took out some more power lines and damaged a few small grain bins. Property damage amount estimated.

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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -233 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 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 191850 RRA
TORBIS
NDC009-191945-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
147 PM CDT THU JUN 19 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN BOTTINEAU COUNTY
 
AT 145 PM CDT RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOTTINEAU
NEAR CARBURY MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS
HAVE BEEN REPORTED.
 
ROTH IS IN THE IMMEDIATE PATH OF THIS TORNADO AND IT SHOULD ARRIVE
BEFORE 2 PM CDT.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIEhCE 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.
 
NOAH
 
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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 18, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman, Slope	67 min
Jun 18, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman	56 min
Jun 18, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams	63 min
Jun 19, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	65 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.