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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 4, 2000Pierce County, Rolette County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2000, 5:17 PM CDT for Pierce County, Rolette County, North Dakota. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 2000, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Pierce County, ND, Rolette County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 326 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -247 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 848 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 042218
TORBIS

NDC069-079-042245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
517 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME NORTHEASTERN PIERCE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  SOUTHEASTERN ROLETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 517 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MYLO...OR ABOUT 39 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 
  BOTTINEAU...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

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.

LAT...LON 4866 9973 4847 9970 4848 9953 4872 9955

RSL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	57 min
Jul 4, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	55 min
Jul 4, 8:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	63 min
Jul 4, 3:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Renville	4 hr
Jul 4, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry	35 min
Jul 4, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Wells	40 min
Jul 4, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Wells	38 min
Jul 4, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Kidder, Stutsman, Wells	65 min
Jul 4, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Stutsman	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.