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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 11, 2000Ward County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2000, 5:53 PM CDT for Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 37 min. 4 reports 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: Jun 11, 2000, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ward County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 11, 5:54 PM CDT	Hail 1	Minot, ND
Jun 11, 6:05 PM CDT	Hail 2	Minot, ND
Jun 11, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Surrey, ND	Tornado crossed into McHenry county and remained in open field.
Jun 11, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Norwich, ND	Tornado originated in Ward county. No damage reported as tornado remained in open field.

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
Jun 11, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

708 
WFUS53 KBIS 112254
TORBIS
NDC049-101-112330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
553 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN MCHENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  EAST CENTRAL WARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MINOT

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 553 PM CDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR MINOT...OR
  ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MINOT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
RURAL NORTHEASTERN WARD COUNTY AT 610 PM CDT
RURAL NORTHWESTERN MCHENRY COUNTY AT 610 PM CDT

LARGE HAIL IS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.
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 4825 10139 4812 10120 4848 10056 4868 10085

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville	49 min
Jun 11, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	39 min
Jun 11, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Hettinger	59 min
Jun 11, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	59 min
Jun 11, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	31 min
Jun 11, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Oliver	54 min
Jun 11, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	66 min
Jun 11, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Renville	45 min
Jun 11, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Oliver	45 min
Jun 11, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean, Oliver	32 min
Jun 11, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	60 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.