Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1997, 2:54 PM CDT for Renville County, Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 51 min. 3 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 25, 1997, 2:54 PM CDT (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Renville County, ND, Ward County, ND
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Minot, ND | brief tornado touchdown 5 SW of Minot |
| Jul 25, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Mohall, ND | tornado moved from 4 SW of Mohall to 5 SE of Mohall |
| Jul 25, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Minot, ND | tornado moved from 8 S of Minot to 20 SE of Minot |
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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 655 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBIS 251953 RRA TORBIS NDC075-101-252030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 254 PM CDT FRI JUL 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...RENVILLE COUNTY...WARD COUNTY AT 253 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE MINOT AIRPORT. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MPH. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS NEAR MOHALL...35 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINOT. MOVEMENT WAS ALSO EAST AT 10 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. JP MARTIN &
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, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Pierce | 65 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, 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.