Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2002

Tornado Warning 1, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 23, 2002Burleigh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2002, 7:57 PM CDT for Burleigh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2002, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Burleigh County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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 23, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 23, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 20 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: 2421 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.4
Supercell composite: 14.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 240057
TORBIS
NDC015-240130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
756 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BURLEIGH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 756 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 9 MILES NORTH OF BISMARCK...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MENOKEN AT 830 PM CDT

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS
IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4704 10086 4687 10085 4678 10046 4700 10040

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer	54 min
Jun 23, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	58 min
Jun 23, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Ward	56 min
Jun 23, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder	61 min
Jun 23, 8:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry	24 min
Jun 23, 8:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	McHenry, Ward	4 hr
Jun 23, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce	36 min
Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	59 min
Jun 23, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	56 min
Jun 23, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Stutsman	55 min
Jun 23, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Wells	58 min
Jun 23, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	59 min
Jun 23, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster	61 min
Jun 23, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	65 min
Jun 24, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	62 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 2002 Every tornado warning in 2002 Tornadoes in 2002

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.