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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 3, 2005Morton County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2005, 12:16 PM CDT for Morton County, North Dakota. It was in force for 29 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 3, 2005, 12:16 PM CDT (17:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2005, 12:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Morton County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:18 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 41 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1084 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 031716
TORBIS
NDC059-031745-
/O.NEW.KBIS.TO.W.0013.050603T1716Z-050603T1745Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1216 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1245 PM CDT

* AT 1114 AM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO OVER NORTHEASTERN
  GRANT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 31 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISMARCK...MOVING
  NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL CENTRAL MORTON COUNTY AROUND 1230 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 HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4666 10147 4661 10122 4683 10109 4690 10131

$$

WAA

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KBIS 031733
SVSBIS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1229 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

NDC059-031745-
/O.CON.KBIS.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050603T1745Z/
MORTON ND-
1229 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1245 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL MORTON
COUNTY...

AT 1227 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED THE TORNADO LIFTED BACK UP INTO 
THE CLOUD. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LOW LEVEL CIRCULATION CONTINUED 
WITH THIS STORM SO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO CONTINUES ACROSS CENTRAL 
MORTON COUNTY...5 MILES EAST OF ALMONT...UNTIL 1245 PM CDT.  THIS 
THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL CENTRAL MORTON COUNTY AT 1240 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 HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4666 10147 4661 10122 4683 10109 4690 10131

$$
ABELING

000 
WWUS53 KBIS 031742
SVSBIS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1242 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

NDC059-031752-
/O.EXP.KBIS.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050603T1745Z/
MORTON ND-
1242 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL MORTON COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1245 PM
CDT...

THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A
SIGNIFICANT THREAT.

LAT...LON 4666 10147 4661 10122 4683 10109 4690 10131

$$

ABELING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McHenry, Pierce	36 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.