Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2000

Tornado Warning 19, NWS Bismarck, ND

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

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2000, 6:12 PM CDT for Bottineau County, Rolette County, North Dakota. It was in force for 33 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 15, 2000, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bottineau County, ND, Rolette County, ND

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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 152316
TORBIS

NDC009-079-152345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
612 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
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BOTTINEAU AND WILLOW CITY
  ROLETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DUNSEITH AND THORNE

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 612 PM CDT...THE HIGHWAY PATROL PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 10 
  MILES SOUTH OF BOTTINEAU IN BOTTINEAU COUNTY. AT 607 PM CDT THE HIGHWAY
  PATROL REPORTED A TORNADO WEST OF DUNSEITH...BOTH TORNADOS WERE MOVING 
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4887 10069 4870 10062 4875 9984 4900 9990

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, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Rolette	37 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

Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 2000 Every tornado warning in 2000 Tornadoes in 2000

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.