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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 27, 2003Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2003, 3:09 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 51 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 27, 2003, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2003, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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 27, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1892 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

471 
WFUS53 KBIS 272009
TORBIS
NDC093-272100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
310 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 310 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER MEDINA...OR ABOUT 26 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CLEVELAND AT 325 PM CDT
  WINDSOR AT 340 PM CDT

LAT...LON 4703 9929 4687 9940 4671 9898 4691 9884

$$
CJS/TSW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Stutsman	37 min
Jun 27, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	60 min
Jun 27, 3:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	LaMoure	26 min
Jun 27, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	61 min
Jun 27, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	55 min
Jun 27, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	33 min
Jun 27, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	59 min
Jun 27, 5:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dickey	33 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.