Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 17, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 45 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
- Jul 17, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 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), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KBIS 172346 TORBIS NDC093-180030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 645 PM CDT TUE JUL 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR WINDSOR...OR ABOUT 16 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ELDRIDGE AT 705 PM CDT SYDNEY...MILLARTON AT 730 PM CDT 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4700 9902 4682 9921 4664 9875 4680 9857 JV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 58 min |
| Jul 17, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 60 min |
| Jul 17, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder, Wells | 64 min |
| Jul 17, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Kidder | 33 min |
| Jul 17, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 62 min |
| Jul 17, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Kidder, Stutsman | 44 min |
| Jul 17, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Wells | 63 min |
| Jul 17, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Morton | 27 min |
| Jul 17, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 47 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.