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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 25, 2004Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 2004, 8:29 PM CDT for Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 46 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: Aug 25, 2004, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 25, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Aug 25, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 1559 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 260129
TORBIS
NDC093-260215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
830 PM CDT WED AUG 25 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 830 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF BUCHANAN...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  JAMESTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  EDMUNDS AROUND 835 PM CDT
  PINGREE AROUND 840 PM CDT
  BUCHANAN AROUND 850 PM CDT
  KENSAL AROUND 910 PM CDT
  SPIRITWOOD LAKE AROUND 915 PM CDT

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.

IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR CAMPER...EVEN IF IT IS TIED DOWN...ABANDON IT
FOR THE NEAREST REINFORCED BUILDING. IF NONE IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT
IN A NEARBY DITCH. DO NOT STAY IN THE MOBILE HOME.

LAT...LON 4725 9916 4694 9904 4705 9854 4731 9858

$$
WAA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh	45 min
Aug 25, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	58 min
Aug 25, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Stutsman	38 min
Aug 25, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	60 min
Aug 25, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Ward	47 min
Aug 25, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	43 min
Aug 25, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	54 min
Aug 26, 12:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Rolette	3 hr
Aug 26, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	62 min
Aug 26, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	42 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.