Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2000, 6:44 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2000, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Stutsman County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Woodworth, 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 nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
477 WFUS53 KBIS 042344 TORBIS NDC093-050015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 644 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 644 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODWORTH...OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WOODWORTH AT 655 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. LAT...LON 4730 9932 4720 9948 4693 9930 4701 9901 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, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Pierce, Rolette | 28 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.