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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 13, 2000Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2000, 4:21 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 24 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 13, 2000, 4:21 PM CDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 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 132122
TORBIS
NDC093-132145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
421 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 421 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR CLEVELAND...OR ABOUT 21 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN...
  MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
RURAL CENTRAL STUTSMAN COUNTY AT 440 PM CDT

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT 
TUESDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4684 9926 4686 9900 4718 9904 4715 9936
RSL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Stark	31 min
Jun 12, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	56 min
Jun 12, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn	45 min
Jun 12, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	60 min
Jun 12, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Bowman	67 min
Jun 12, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	57 min
Jun 12, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Wells	27 min
Jun 12, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	51 min
Jun 12, 11:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Hettinger	56 min
Jun 12, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	43 min
Jun 13, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant	60 min
Jun 13, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Wells	60 min
Jun 13, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Stutsman	30 min
Jun 13, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	26 min
Jun 13, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	66 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.