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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 27, 2003Dickey County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2003, 5:12 PM CDT for Dickey 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 27, 2003, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dickey County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 272212
TORBIS
NDC021-272245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DICKEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 512 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER OAKES...OR ABOUT 58 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JAMESTOWN...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LUDDEN AT 525 PM CDT

LAT...LON 4628 9821 4600 9831 4595 9803 4620 9804

$$
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, 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

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.