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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 27, 2002Ward County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 27, 2002, 4:50 PM CDT for Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 25 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: Aug 27, 2002, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ward County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 668 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

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

118 
WFUS53 KBIS 272150
TORBIS
NDC101-272215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
450 PM CDT TUE AUG 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL WARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 450 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER BERTHOLD...OR ABOUT 19 MILES WEST OF MINOT...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FOXHOLM AT 455 PM CDT
  BURLINGTON AT 505 PM CDT
  MINOT AFB AT 515 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 4844 10192 4797 10165 4798 10124 4823 10135
          4846 10131

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	35 min
Aug 26, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	54 min
Aug 26, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	57 min
Aug 26, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	40 min
Aug 27, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	39 min
Aug 27, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	23 min
Aug 27, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	27 min
Aug 27, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Ward	25 min
Aug 27, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	41 min
Aug 27, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	63 min
Aug 27, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	57 min
Aug 27, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	46 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.