Tornado Warning 36, NWS Bismarck, ND

Issued

Aug 15, 1999, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)

Expired

Aug 15, 1999, 7:30 PM CDT

In force

38 min

Issued by

NWS Bismarck, ND

Area

Whole counties

Counties McHenry County, ND, McLean County, ND

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 152357 COR
TORBIS
NDC049-055-160030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING                         ....CORRECTION   
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
652 PM CDT SUN AUG 15 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MCHENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA 
  EXTREME NORTHEAST MCLEAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 652 PM CDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 4 MILES
  SOUTH OF BENEDICT...OR ABOUT 36 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MINOT...MOVING 
  NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RUSO AT 700 PM CDT
  BUTTE AT 705 PM CDT
  KIEF AT 710 PM CDT
  VELVA AT 712 PM CDT
  BALFOUR AND DRAKE AT 715 PM CDT
  
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

&

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NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Aug 15, 3:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
335 PM CDT SUN AUG 15 1999

HAVE ALREADY ISSUED ZONES BECAUSE OF NEW SVR TSTM WATCH.

SVR TSTMS EXPECTED TON OVER WRN AND CNTRL ND. VIGOROUS SFC LOW AT
CNTRL ND/SD BORDER WI STRONG H5 SHORT WAVE BEHIND LOW. EXPECT STRONG
NWLY WINDS BEHIND SYSTEM. KEPT CHC SHOWERS IN THE NORTH FOR MON AND
MON NIGHT AS COOLER AIR ALOFT...PVA AND MORE MOISTURE ALONG CANADIAN
BORDER. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE MOVES QUICKLY ACROSS THE STA ON TUE SO
KEPT FAIRLY LOW POPS EVERYWHERE BUT THE FAR SW.

CHC PCPN TUE NIGHT BEFORE H5 RIDGE BUILDS OVER CNTRL PART OF THE
COUNTRY...BUT ATMOS NOT SUFFICIENTLY CAPPED ON FRI WHEN ANOTHER
SHORTWAVE MOVES INTO THE NRN PLAINS.

.BIS...NONE.
JV

In the hours before

NDZ001>005-009>013-017>023-025-031>037-040>048-050-051-152100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  BISMARCK ND
310 PM CDT SUN AUG 15 1999

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS TO BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT
HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEW WATCH.

THE NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT...AND
INCLUDES THE WHOLE WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE AS FAR EAST AS
BOTTINEAU...MCHENRY...SHERIDAN...BURLEIGH...AND EMMONS COUNTIES.

COUNTIES EAST OF THIS LINE ARE NO LONGER IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH...BUT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND
SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES MAY BE ISSUED LATER THIS EVENING.

JV

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.