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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 27, 2003LaMoure County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2003, 3:49 PM CDT for LaMoure County, North Dakota. It was in force for 26 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, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County LaMoure County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 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.

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 272049
TORBIS
NDC045-272115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LAMOURE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 347 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER BERLIN...OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTH OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  GRAND RAPIDS AT 355 PM CDT
  LA MOURE AT 405 PM CDT

LAT...LON 4656 9859 4630 9869 4630 9808 4654 9808

$$
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, 3:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Stutsman	51 min
Jun 27, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	60 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.