Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 1997, 8:10 PM CDT for Pierce County, North Dakota. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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 24, 1997, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1997, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pierce County, ND
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Barton, ND | brief tornado touchdown 3 nw Barton |
| Jul 24, 8:57 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Rugby, ND | hail fell 7 NW Rugby |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIS 250112 RRA TORBIS NDC069-250215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 810 PM CDT THU JUL 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...NORTHERN PIERCE COUNTY AT 808 PM CDT A HIGHWAY PATROLMAN SPOTTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 4 MILES NORTH OF RUGBY ON THE WEST SIDE OF HIGHWAY 3...OR 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEVILS LAKE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE RUGBY...PLEASANT LAKE...AND KNOX. 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. VINING/FRANSEN &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Rolette | 62 min |
| Jul 24, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stark | 58 min |
| Jul 24, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Pierce | 59 min |
| Jul 24, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean | 65 min |
| Jul 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Rolette | 49 min |
| Jul 24, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Pierce | 57 min |
| Jul 24, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean | 63 min |
| Jul 24, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons | 56 min |
| Jul 25, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Renville, Ward | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Logan, McIntosh | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 43 min |
| Jul 25, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McHenry, Ward | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey | 52 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.