Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Nov 1, 2000, 2:43 PM MST for Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 47 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, 2:43 PM MST (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2000, 3:30 PM MST
- In force
- 47 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), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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, 2:43 PM MST | Tornado F0 | New Salem, ND | Tornado touched down in open country skipping in a west northwest direction. The tornado remained in open country. |
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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 012142 TORBIS NDC059-012230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 243 PM MST WED NOV 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND WEST MORTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 330 PM MST * AT 240 PM MST...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF NEW SALEM...OR ABOUT 27 MILES WEST OF BISMARCK. RADAR HAD THE MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NEW SALEM THROUGH 245 PM MST NORTH OF GLEN ULLIN BY 310 PM MST 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 4672 10139 4688 10127 4699 10164 4685 10182 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, 1:50 PM MST | Tornado Warning | BIS | Morton | 25 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, 2:58 PM MST | 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.