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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 5, 2004Renville County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2004, 4:49 PM CDT for Renville County, North Dakota. It was in force for 26 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
Jun 5, 2004, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Renville County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2004-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 41 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2004-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
41 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-243 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1088 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 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.

417 
WFUS53 KBIS 052149
TORBIS
NDC075-052215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
447 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL RENVILLE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 447 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES WEST 
  OF MOHALL...OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF MINOT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  MOHALL AT 445 PM CDT

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 4884 10153 4872 10173 4850 10166 4854 10149

$$
RSL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke, Renville, Ward44 min
Jun 4, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke, Ward45 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.