Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Nov 1, 2000, 1:50 PM MST for Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 25 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, 1:50 PM MST (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2000, 2:15 PM MST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Morton County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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, 2:00 PM MST | Tornado F1 | Mandan, ND | Tornado crossed the Missouri River from Burleigh county and moved in a northwest direction skipping across the open country side. The tornado then entered into Oliver county. |
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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 32 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 012051 TORBIS NDC059-012115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 150 PM MST WED NOV 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 215 PM MST(315 PM CST) * AT 149 PM MST(249 PM CST)...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BISMARCK...MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NORTH OF INTERSTATE 94 WEST OF MANDAN 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 4683 10086 4698 10092 4696 10148 4670 10135 NOAH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 1:33 PM MST | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 27 min |
| Nov 1, 2:05 PM MST | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burleigh, McLean | 40 min |
| Nov 1, 2:29 PM MST | Tornado Warning | BIS | Oliver | 31 min |
| Nov 1, 2:43 PM MST | Tornado Warning | BIS | Morton | 47 min |
| Nov 1, 2:58 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean | 62 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.