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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Bismarck, ND

November 1, 2000Burleigh County, McLean County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Nov 1, 2000, 3:05 PM CST for Burleigh County, McLean County, North Dakota. It was in force for 40 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: Nov 1, 2000, 3:05 PM CST (21:05 UTC)
Expired: Nov 1, 2000, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Burleigh County, ND, McLean County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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.

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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 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

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The text

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

151 
WFUS53 KBIS 012105
TORBIS
NDC015-055-012145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
305 PM CST WED NOV 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREMEM NORTHWESTERN BURLEIGH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  SOUTH MCLEAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 345 PM CST

* AT 301 PM CST...A FUNNEL WAS REPORTED ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF      
  BISMARCK...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NORTH OF WILTON BY 320 PM CST

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST WEDNESDAY EVENING 
FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. 

LAT...LON 4716 10064 4731 10055 4733 10068 4771 10109
          4746 10140

NOAH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 1, 2:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh	27 min
Nov 1, 2:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton	25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.