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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 7, 2005Emmons County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2005, 8:47 PM CDT for Emmons County, North Dakota. It was in force for 28 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 7, 2005, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2005, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Emmons County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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
Jun 7, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 49 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: 1199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 976 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: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 080147
TORBIS
NDC029-080215-
/O.NEW.KBIS.TO.W.0021.050608T0147Z-050608T0215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
847 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN EMMONS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 845 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 18 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF HAZELTON...OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF BISMARCK...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL WESTERN EMMONS COUNTY AROUND 900 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.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE
HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT WEDNESDAY
MORNING FOR SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4633 10054 4643 10056 4662 10049 4663 10018
      4661 10010 4618 10038 4617 10043 4620 10058
      4626 10056 4629 10058

$$

JC

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KBIS 080202 RRA
SVSBIS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
902 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

NDC029-080215-
/O.CON.KBIS.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050608T0215Z/
EMMONS ND-
902 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN
EMMONS COUNTY...

AT 858 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
HAZELTON...OR ABOUT 36 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BISMARCK...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HAZELTON BY 915 PM CDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 3/4 
INCH SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT WEDNESDAY
MORNING FOR SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4633 10054 4643 10056 4662 10049 4663 10018
      4661 10010 4618 10038 4617 10043 4620 10058
      4626 10056 4629 10058

$$

VINING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	50 min
Jun 7, 8:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton, Sioux	3 hr
Jun 7, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	38 min
Jun 7, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	56 min
Jun 7, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	44 min
Jun 7, 8:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Grant, Sioux	2 hr
Jun 7, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Emmons	37 min
Jun 7, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan, McIntosh	46 min
Jun 7, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	42 min
Jun 7, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan	43 min
Jun 7, 10:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Dickey, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman	115 min
Jun 7, 10:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dickey	25 min
Jun 7, 10:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Dickey	46 min
Jun 7, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	22 min
Jun 7, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	37 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.