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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Bismarck, ND

May 29, 2004McIntosh County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 5:05 PM CDT for McIntosh 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: May 29, 2004, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McIntosh County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 266 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.

864 
WFUS53 KBIS 292205
TORBIS
NDC051-292230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
505 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 505 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER VENTURIA...OR ABOUT 74 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN...
  MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  VENTURIA AROUND 510 PM CDT
  ASHLEY AROUND 530 PM CDT

LAT...LON 4597 9966 4596 9932 4626 9922 4626 9964

$$
WA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Golden Valley	64 min
May 28, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings	59 min
May 29, 12:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	McKenzie	3 hr
May 29, 4:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	40 min
May 29, 4:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Williams	35 min
May 29, 5:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide, Williams	38 min
May 29, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	52 min
May 29, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	55 min
May 29, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	64 min
May 29, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	56 min
May 29, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	56 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.