Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2005, 11:14 PM CDT for Divide County, Williams County, North Dakota. It was in force for 31 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 25, 2005, 11:14 PM CDT (04:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2005, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Divide County, ND, Williams 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 243 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KBIS 260414 TORBIS NDC023-105-260445- /O.NEW.KBIS.TO.W.0032.050626T0414Z-050626T0445Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1114 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN DIVIDE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA NORTHEASTERN WILLIAMS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1111 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ALAMO...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF CROSBY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CORINTH AROUND 1120 PM CDT WILDROSE AROUND 1130 PM CDT HAMLET AROUND 1140 PM CDT MCGREGOR AROUND 1145 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 4886 10374 4836 10350 4841 10291 4886 10296 $$ CS/CD/RSL
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KBIS 260432 SVSBIS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1132 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2005 NDC023-105-260445- /O.CON.KBIS.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-050626T0445Z/ WILLIAMS ND-DIVIDE ND- 1132 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR EASTERN DIVIDE AND NORTHEASTERN WILLIAMS COUNTIES... AT 1131 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HAMLET...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CROSBY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MCGREGOR BY 1140 PM CDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4886 10365 4836 10350 4841 10289 4886 10295 $$ CJS/RSL
000 WWUS53 KBIS 260445 SVSBIS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 1145 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2005 NDC023-105-260454- /O.EXP.KBIS.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-050626T0445Z/ WILLIAMS ND-DIVIDE ND- 1145 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN DIVIDE AND NORTHEASTERN WILLIAMS COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 1145 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A SIGNIFICANT THREAT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4886 10365 4836 10350 4841 10289 4886 10295 $$ CJS/RSL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, Williams | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, Williams | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, McKenzie, Williams | 65 min |
| Jun 25, 10:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Divide, Williams | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Mountrail | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Renville, Ward | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Slope | 67 min |
| Jun 26, 12:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Renville, Ward | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stark | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Ward | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Rolette | 70 min |
| Jun 26, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Golden Valley, McKenzie | 52 min |
| Jun 26, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Mountrail, Ward | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 5:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | McKenzie, Mountrail | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mercer, Oliver | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Renville | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton, Sioux | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Bowman | 38 min |
| Jun 26, 5:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Renville, Ward | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Renville, Ward | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Morton, Sioux | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Oliver | 22 min |
| Jun 26, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Bowman, Hettinger | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau | 57 min |
| Jun 26, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 38 min |
| Jun 26, 6:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Ward | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 33 min |
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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.