Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2001, 8:08 PM MDT for Golden Valley County, North Dakota. It was in force for 67 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 19, 2001, 8:08 PM MDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2001, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Golden Valley County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 242 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 667 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
065 WFUS53 KBIS 200208 TORBIS NDC033-200315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 808 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 915 PM MDT * AT 808 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEACH...OR ABOUT 56 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOWMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BEACH AT 825 PM MDT SENTINEL BUTTE AT 840 PM MDT 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. LAT...LON 4701 10406 4674 10404 4687 10363 4733 10388
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 9:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Sioux | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 9:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Williams | 56 min |
| Jul 19, 9:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 9:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Williams | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 9:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons | 65 min |
| Jul 19, 9:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton | 34 min |
| Jul 19, 9:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn | 65 min |
| Jul 19, 9:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton, Oliver | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 10:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Mountrail | 58 min |
| Jul 19, 10:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder, Logan | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 10:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 58 min |
| Jul 19, 10:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, McLean | 46 min |
| Jul 19, 10:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder | 46 min |
| Jul 19, 11:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 11:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Sheridan, Wells | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 11:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 11:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke | 65 min |
| Jul 19, 11:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 55 min |
| Jul 19, 11:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster | 39 min |
| Jul 20, 12:01 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 12:29 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry | 61 min |
| Jul 20, 1:32 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce, Rolette | 58 min |
| Jul 20, 2:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 59 min |
| Jul 20, 3:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke | 55 min |
| Jul 20, 3:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burke | 35 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.