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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Bismarck, ND

November 1, 2000McLean County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 2000, 3:58 PM CST for McLean County, North Dakota. It was in force for 62 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: Nov 1, 2000, 3:58 PM CST (21:58 UTC)
Expired: Nov 1, 2000, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties

County McLean County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 1, 3:58 PM CST	Tornado F0	Mercer, ND	Tornado touched down in open country skipping in a west direction across the country side.

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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Nov 1, 2:50 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 1, 2:50 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
250 PM CST WED NOV 1 2000

STORM SYSTEM VARIES FROM SEVERE SUMMER WEATHER TO HARSH WINTER
WEATHER. AIRMASS IS DESTABLIZING IN THE WARM DRY SLOT IN SOUTH
CENTRAL ND AND SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE CENTRAL THIS
EVENING. IN THE FAR WEST...THE MOIST AIRMASS IS COOLING AND SNOW IS
BECOMING MIXED WITH RAIN. IN THE BIG PICTURE...THE 3 SHORT RANGE
MODELS ARE CLOSE IN TRACKING THE STACKED SYSTEM NORTH ACROSS EASTERN
ND TONIGHT. THE SOURCE OF MOISTURE WILL CUTOFF EARLY TONIGHT IN THE
SOUTHWEST. THE WINTER STORM WARNING IN THE WEST AND NORTH CENTRAL
DESERVES DOWN GRADING TO ADVISORY DUE TO DELAYED COOLING AND LOWER
lEXPECTED SNOWFALL.

.BIS...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NORTH CENTRAL AND FAR WEST TONIGHT AND
       THURSDAY MORNING...

LM

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 1, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
230 PM CST WED NOV 01 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0158 PM    BISMARCK                  ND   TORNADO
11/01/00   BURLEIGH                       EVENT DURATION 10
                                          MINUTES. . REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT
                                          OFFICIAL. DAMAGE TO
                                          GARAGES...SHINGLES OFF
                                          ROOFS...CAMPERS BLOWN
                                          OVER.

0204 PM    MENOKEN                   ND   FUNNEL CLOUD
11/01/00   BURLEIGH                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0229 PM    8 NE BISMARCK             ND   TORNADO
11/01/00   BURLEIGH                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
                                          TORNADO SKIPPING ACROSS
                                          COUNTRY SIDE. NO DAMAGE
                                          REPORTED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 1, 2:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh	27 min
Nov 1, 2:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton	25 min
Nov 1, 3:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean	40 min
Nov 1, 3:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BIS	Oliver	31 min
Nov 1, 3:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton	47 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.