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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 26, 2001Burke County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 2001, 6:40 PM CDT for Burke County, North Dakota. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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 26, 2001, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Burke County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 26, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Battleview, ND	Brief touchdown in open country.

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 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 245 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: 415 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 262341
TORBIS

NDC013-270015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
640 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL BURKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 640 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO OVER EXTREME SOUTH 
  CENTRAL BURKE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CROSBY...OR
  15 MILES NORTH OF STANLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHERN BURKE COUNTY AT 650 PM CDT
  RURAL EASTERN BURKE COUNTY...JUST WEST OF NIOBE...AT 700 PM CDT

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4857 10259 4857 10226 4874 10225 4880 10236

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 7:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Golden Valley, Slope	65 min
Jul 25, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings	67 min
Jul 25, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Slope	67 min
Jul 25, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	56 min
Jul 25, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Slope	62 min
Jul 25, 10:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope	6 hr
Jul 25, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman	61 min
Jul 25, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	59 min
Jul 26, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McKenzie	45 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.