Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2004, 8:29 PM MDT for Bowman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 31 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 14, 2004, 8:29 PM MDT (02:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bowman County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 218 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 14, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 222 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 577 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KBIS 150229 TORBIS NDC011-150300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 828 PM MDT WED JUL 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BOWMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BOWMAN * UNTIL 900 PM MDT * AT 828 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF BOWMAN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN JUST WEST OF BOWMAN THROUGH 9 PM MDT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4625 10348 4615 10365 4593 10347 4596 10311 $$ TWH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Golden Valley | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Slope | 53 min |
| Jul 14, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 7:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Slope | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 8:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 9:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, Williams | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 9:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Williams | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 10:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 10:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 53 min |
| Jul 14, 11:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 11:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 58 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.