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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Bismarck, ND

November 1, 2000Oliver County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Nov 1, 2000, 3:29 PM CST for Oliver County, North Dakota. It was in force for 31 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, 3:29 PM CST (21:29 UTC)
Expired: Nov 1, 2000, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Oliver County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 48 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.

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 012130
TORBIS

NDC065-012200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN OLIVER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 400 PM CST

* AT 329 PM CST...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ABOUT 25 MILES 
  NORTHWEST OF BISMARCK...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HENSLER AT 345 PM CST

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 4702 10089 4717 10098 4728 10107 4723 10123
          4723 10129 4700 10127 4700 10096

JENSEN
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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, 3:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean	40 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.