Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2006, 7:28 PM CDT for Logan County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 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 9, 2006, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2006, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Logan County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 9, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1510 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2369 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KBIS 100028 TORBIS NDC047-100100- /O.NEW.KBIS.TO.W.0013.060810T0028Z-060810T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 728 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LOGAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 723 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURNSTAD...OR ABOUT 48 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES EAST OF BURNSTAD AROUND 750 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 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4662 9927 4663 9967 4630 9970 4629 9908 $$ LEBLANG
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KBIS 100045 SVSBIS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 745 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2006 NDC047-100100- /O.CON.KBIS.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060810T0100Z/ LOGAN ND- 745 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR LOGAN COUNTY... AT 740 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED 11 MILES EAST OF BURNSTAD...OR ABOUT 47 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL CENTRAL LOGAN COUNTY AROUND 800 PM CDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4662 9927 4663 9967 4630 9970 4629 9908 $$ LEBLANG
000 WWUS53 KBIS 100059 SVSBIS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND 759 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2006 NDC047-100109- /O.EXP.KBIS.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060810T0100Z/ LOGAN ND- 759 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR LOGAN COUNTY EXPIRES AT 800 PM CDT... THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A SIGNIFICANT THREAT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4662 9927 4663 9967 4630 9970 4629 9908 $$ LEBLANG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McIntosh | 54 min |
| Aug 9, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McIntosh | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | LaMoure | 66 min |
| Aug 9, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | LaMoure | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley | 49 min |
| Aug 10, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Logan | 53 min |
| Aug 10, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 1:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Logan, McIntosh | 33 min |
| Aug 10, 2:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Logan, McIntosh | 32 min |
| Aug 10, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder | 54 min |
| Aug 10, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McIntosh | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder, Logan | 63 min |
| Aug 10, 5:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Kidder | 42 min |
| Aug 10, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Sioux | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Sioux | 32 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.