Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 1997, 9:15 PM CDT for Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 10, 1997, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ward County, ND
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 9:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | (Mib)Minot Afb, ND |
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 10, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 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
- 4434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 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 110216 RRA TORBIS NDC101-110245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 915 PM CDT THU JUL 10 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA ...NORTHERN WARD COUNTY AT 912 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 5 MILES SOUTH OF THE MINOT AIRBASE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF MINOT THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE MINOT AREA AND MINOT AIRBASE. 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn | 64 min |
| Jul 10, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Mountrail | 60 min |
| Jul 10, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Mercer | 60 min |
| Jul 10, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Sioux | 65 min |
| Jul 10, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Mercer | 34 min |
| Jul 10, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 54 min |
| Jul 10, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail, Ward | 68 min |
| Jul 10, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Renville | 66 min |
| Jul 10, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton | 65 min |
| Jul 10, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Mercer | 69 min |
| Jul 10, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McHenry | 33 min |
| Jul 10, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Sioux | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Pierce | 40 min |
| Jul 10, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons | 40 min |
| Jul 10, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce, Rolette | 46 min |
| Jul 11, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 44 min |
| Jul 11, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Renville, Ward | 44 min |
| Jul 11, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke | 66 min |
| Jul 11, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Oliver | 67 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.