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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 12, 2000Billings County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2000, 5:31 PM MDT for Billings County, North Dakota. It was in force for 29 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: Jun 12, 2000, 5:31 PM MDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2000, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Billings County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 199 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 12, 5:15 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 80 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -312 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1408 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 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.

429 
WFUS53 KBIS 122333
TORBIS
NDC007-130000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
531 PM MDT MON JUN 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BILLINGS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 531 PM MDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 7 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FAIRFIELD...OR ABOUT 29 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  DICKINSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FAIRFIELD AT 540 PM MDT

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4720 10353 4696 10335 4716 10306 4730 10311

RSL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 6:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean	32 min
Jun 11, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	64 min
Jun 11, 6:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce	27 min
Jun 11, 6:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	27 min
Jun 11, 7:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Sheridan	61 min
Jun 11, 9:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	67 min
Jun 12, 4:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	49 min
Jun 12, 4:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Billings	43 min
Jun 12, 5:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	60 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 2000 Every tornado warning in 2000 Tornadoes in 2000

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.