Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT for Burke County, Mountrail County, North Dakota. It was in force for 45 min. 3 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
- Jul 19, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Burke County, ND, Mountrail County, ND
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Powers Lake, ND | Tornado briefly touched down in open country. |
| Jul 19, 5:38 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Powers Lake, ND | |
| Jul 19, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Powers Lake, ND | The multi-vortex tornado cut a 2 mile wide swath across open country twisting off numerous tree tops. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -567 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KBIS 192216
TORBIS
NDC013-061-192300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
515 PM CDT THU JUL 19 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL BURKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
NORTHEASTERN MOUNTRAIL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* AT 515 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 6 MILES EAST OF POWERS LAKE...OR ABOUT 44 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF CROSBY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
LOSTWOOD AT 520 PM CDT
COULEE AT 545 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA.
LAT...LON 4871 10266 4846 10264 4833 10195 4851 10204
4854 10224 4873 10226
JVThe office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 55 min |
| Jul 18, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 59 min |
| Jul 18, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Logan, McIntosh | 67 min |
| Jul 18, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | LaMoure, Stutsman | 38 min |
| Jul 18, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McIntosh | 64 min |
| Jul 18, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 62 min |
| Jul 18, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Logan, McIntosh | 53 min |
| Jul 18, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Bowman | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | LaMoure | 56 min |
| Jul 18, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Sioux | 59 min |
| Jul 19, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons | 51 min |
| Jul 19, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | LaMoure, Logan | 55 min |
| Jul 19, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 62 min |
| Jul 19, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, Williams | 62 min |
| Jul 19, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, Williams | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Mountrail | 62 min |
| Jul 19, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Ward | 29 min |
| Jul 19, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Ward | 30 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.