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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 17, 2007Burleigh County, Kidder County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2007, 12:27 AM CDT for Burleigh County, Kidder County, North Dakota. It was in force for 33 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 17, 2007, 12:27 AM CDT (05:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2007, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Burleigh County, ND, Kidder County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 16, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -277 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1366 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KBIS 170527
TORBIS
NDC015-043-170600-
/O.NEW.KBIS.TO.W.0017.070617T0527Z-070617T0600Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
1227 AM CDT SUN JUN 17 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BURLEIGH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...
  SOUTHWESTERN KIDDER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 1223 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES EAST OF
  MOFFIT...OR ABOUT 31 MILES EAST OF BISMARCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHWESTERN KIDDER COUNTY AROUND 1240 AM CDT...
  RURAL CENTRAL KIDDER COUNTY AROUND 100 AM 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 600 AM CDT SUNDAY
MORNING FOR NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4668 10034 4664 10029 4664 9979 4684 9978
      4685 10009

$$

JV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	51 min
Jun 16, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder	56 min
Jun 16, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder, Morton	54 min
Jun 16, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder	58 min
Jun 16, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh	54 min
Jun 17, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	58 min
Jun 17, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	60 min
Jun 17, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder	56 min
Jun 17, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean	53 min
Jun 17, 12:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh	33 min
Jun 17, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	67 min
Jun 17, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Mountrail, Williams	67 min
Jun 17, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	61 min
Jun 17, 4:16 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure	11 hr
Jun 17, 7:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	62 min
Jun 17, 3:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	BIS	Dickey, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman	9 hr

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.