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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Bismarck, ND

August 25, 2004Ward County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 2004, 8:58 PM CDT for Ward County, North Dakota. It was in force for 47 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, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2004, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ward 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
Aug 25, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 157 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 260158
TORBIS
NDC101-260245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 855 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF MAKOTI...OR ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
  MINOT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  NORTH OF MAKOTI AND ON HIGHWAY 23 AT 855 PM CDT THROUGH 915 PM
  NORTH OF RYDER AROUND 920 PM CDT

A SKYWARN SPOTTER WAS SEEING A FUNNEL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM AND 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG ROTATION. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR WINDOWLESS ROOM SUCH AS A BATHROOM OR CLOSET. PROTECT YOUR
HEAD WITH BLANKETS OR PILLOWS.

LAT...LON 4812 10178 4795 10184 4786 10151 4806 10139

$$

VINING

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, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Stutsman	46 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.