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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 6, 2004Sheridan County, Wells County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2004, 9:16 PM CDT for Sheridan County, Wells County, North Dakota. It was in force for 44 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 6, 2004, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Sheridan County, ND, Wells County, ND

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 6, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 6, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 1945 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 9.1

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The text

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

705 
WFUS53 KBIS 070216
TORBIS
NDC083-103-070300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
915 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
  NORTHWESTERN WELLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 915 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF MARTIN...OR ABOUT 55 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  MINOT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  MARTIN AROUND 925 PM CDT
  HARVEY AROUND 945 PM CDT
  WELLSBURG AROUND 955 PM CDT

LAT...LON 4784 10040 4766 10041 4765 9970 4783 9969

$$
LEBLANG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean	27 min
Jun 6, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	53 min
Jun 6, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean, Ward	26 min
Jun 6, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean	29 min
Jun 6, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail, Renville, Ward	58 min
Jun 6, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean	27 min
Jun 6, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	55 min
Jun 6, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Ward	32 min
Jun 6, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean	27 min
Jun 6, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean	24 min
Jun 6, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Sheridan	32 min
Jun 6, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Pierce	60 min
Jun 6, 8:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean	27 min
Jun 6, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry	34 min
Jun 6, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville, Ward	56 min
Jun 6, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	30 min
Jun 6, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	51 min
Jun 6, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	64 min
Jun 6, 9:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Renville	25 min
Jun 6, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Pierce	60 min
Jun 6, 9:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bottineau	46 min
Jun 6, 10:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Wells	41 min
Jun 6, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	65 min
Jun 6, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	61 min
Jun 6, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Pierce	57 min
Jun 6, 10:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry, Ward	25 min
Jun 6, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Pierce	14 min
Jun 6, 11:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry	43 min
Jun 6, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	24 min
Jun 6, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce	42 min
Jun 7, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	49 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.