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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 28, 1997McHenry County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1997, 11:17 PM CDT for McHenry County, North Dakota. It was in force for 28 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 28, 1997, 11:17 PM CDT (04:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1997, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County McHenry County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 28, 11:18 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Deering, ND	The tornado touched down just ouside of the town. It moved northeast and hit the edge of a farm. A small barn was destroyed by the tornado as it moved through. Damage amout 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 28, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 547 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

488 
WFUS1 KBIS 290421 RRA
TORBIS
NDC049-290445-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1117 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...NORTHERN MCHENRY COUNTY
 
AT 1115 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS 5 MILES WEST OF BANTRY...25 MILES
NORTHEAST OF MINOT.
 
MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
ANYONE IN OR AROUND DEERING OR BANTRY NEED TO TAKE ACTION NOW. GET TO A
BASEMENT.
 
ANYONE IN NORTHERN MCHENRY COUNTY NEEDS TO BE ALERT TO THE WEATHER
AROUND THEM. TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
 
A FIRE CHIEF IN THE AREA REPORTED THE TORNADO.
 
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
 
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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 28, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	43 min
Jun 28, 10:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	53 min
Jun 28, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	69 min
Jun 28, 11:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry	44 min
Jun 29, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	59 min
Jun 29, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	58 min
Jun 29, 12:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	57 min
Jun 29, 2:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	69 min
Jun 29, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	60 min
Jun 29, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	56 min
Jun 29, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	64 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.