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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 4, 2000Dickey County, LaMoure County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2000, 10:06 PM CDT for Dickey County, LaMoure County, North Dakota. It was in force for 54 min. 4 reports 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, 10:06 PM CDT (03:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Dickey County, ND, LaMoure County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 4, 10:25 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Fullerton, ND	Tornado reported by a co-op observer who stated the tornado briefly touched down in open country for a couple of minuates before dissipating.
Jul 4, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Edgeley, ND	Tornado touched down in open country destroying a pole barn.
Jul 4, 10:55 PM CDT	Hail 1	Edgeley, ND
Jul 4, 11:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 57 M	Edgeley, ND	Tree's uprooted. Severe crop damage.

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 4, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 1885 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1396 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 050307
TORBIS

NDC021-045-050400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1006 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DICKEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
  LAMOURE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1006 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER JUD...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN...
  MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  EDGELEY...KULM...GRAND RAPIDS AT 1030 PM CDT
  BERLIN AT 1035 PM CDT
  LA MOURE AT 1045 PM CDT
  MERRICOURT AT 1055 PM CDT
  MONANGO AT 1100 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 4663 9824 4662 9910 4596 9898 4595 9825
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JENSEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	46 min
Jul 4, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	60 min
Jul 4, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	56 min
Jul 4, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	66 min
Jul 4, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	60 min
Jul 4, 9:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	LaMoure	35 min
Jul 4, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Stark	53 min
Jul 4, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings	46 min
Jul 4, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	40 min
Jul 4, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	53 min
Jul 5, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	43 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.