Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Nov 1, 2000, 2:33 PM CST for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 27 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
- Nov 1, 2000, 2:33 PM CST (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2000, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Burleigh County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2:33 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Bismarck, ND | Tornado touched down in a sparsely developed area in open country along highway 1804. The tornado skipped in a west..northwest direction. One home was heavily damaged. Several bales of hay were destroyed. The tornado crossed the Missouri River into Morton coun |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KBIS 012035
TORBIS
NDC015-012100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
233 PM CST WED NOV 1 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL BURLEIGH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
INCLUDES AREAS NORTH OF THE CITY OF BISMARCK
* UNTIL 300 PM CST
* AT 233 PM CST...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTH OF
BISMARCK...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
RURAL AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL BURLEIGH
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 4678 10063 4699 10062 4704 10088 4692 10090
4681 10082
&
JENSENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BIS | Morton | 25 min |
| Nov 1, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burleigh, McLean | 40 min |
| Nov 1, 3:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BIS | Oliver | 31 min |
| Nov 1, 3:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BIS | Morton | 47 min |
| Nov 1, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean | 62 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.