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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 11, 2000Burleigh County, McLean County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2000, 7:13 PM CDT for Burleigh County, McLean County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 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: Jun 11, 2000, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 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), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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
Jun 11, 7:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Wilton, ND

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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 55 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: 919 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 11.6

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The text

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

279 
WFUS53 KBIS 120016
TORBIS
NDC015-055-120045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME NORTHWEST BURLEIGH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  EXTREME SOUTHEAST MCLEAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 713 PM CDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 11 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF WASHBURN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WILTON AT 725 PM CDT

BISMARCK IS NOT IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO.

LAT...LON 4715 10105 4703 10087 4739 10024 4758 10052


JP MARTIN

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	64 min
Jun 11, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce	27 min
Jun 11, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	27 min
Jun 11, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Sheridan	61 min
Jun 11, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	67 min
Jun 12, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	49 min
Jun 12, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Billings	43 min
Jun 12, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Billings	29 min
Jun 12, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.