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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 10, 2004Kidder County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2004, 6:50 PM CDT for Kidder 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: Jul 10, 2004, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kidder County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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
Jul 10, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 804 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -244 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 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.

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 102350
TORBIS
NDC043-110015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
650 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL KIDDER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 650 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PETTIBONE...OR ABOUT 49 MILES WEST OF
  JAMESTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PETTIBONE AROUND 705 PM CDT
  THIS STORM IS OVER HORSEHEAD LAKE.

LAT...LON 4709 9983 4691 9984 4689 9950 4713 9951

$$

JV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail, Ward	31 min
Jul 10, 1:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Renville	3 hr
Jul 10, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail	26 min
Jul 10, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Renville	24 min
Jul 10, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	66 min
Jul 10, 5:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Oliver	3 hr
Jul 10, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	62 min
Jul 10, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder	54 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.