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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 15, 2000Bottineau County, Rolette County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2000, 5:53 PM CDT for Bottineau County, Rolette County, North Dakota. It was in force for 37 min. 2 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 15, 2000, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bottineau County, ND, Rolette County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 15, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Bottineau, ND	Tornado touched down in open country and moved into Rolette county before lifting back into the clouds.
Jul 15, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Dunseith, ND	Tornado began in Bottineau county. No damage reported as tornado remained in open field.

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 15, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 1025 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -492 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1382 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 152254
TORBIS

NDC009-079-152330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
553 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL BOTTINEAU COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  CENTRAL ROLETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 553 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF
  DUNSEITH...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF BOTTINEAU...MOVING EAST AT 10
  MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE THORNE...SHELL VALLEY AND
  EAST DUNSEITH

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4892 10037 4873 10042 4871 9976 4894 9979

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman, Slope	33 min
Jul 14, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman	60 min
Jul 15, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	54 min
Jul 15, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Rolette	33 min
Jul 15, 6:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry	34 min
Jul 15, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce, Rolette	40 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.