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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 24, 2010Burke County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2010, 8:00 PM CDT for Burke County, North Dakota. It was in force for 30 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 2010, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2010, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Burke County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 24, 8:05 PM CDT	HAIL 1	1 E Lignite, ND
Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDT	HAIL 1.5	4 S Lignite, ND	HAIL FELL FROM 805 PM TO 815 PM CDT.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 24, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 254 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: 1567 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 5.9

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The text

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

568 
WFUS53 KBIS 250100
TORBIS
NDC013-250130-
/O.NEW.KBIS.TO.W.0021.100625T0100Z-100625T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
800 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BURKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIGNITE...OR 36 MILES EAST
  OF CROSBY...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  COTEAU AND BOWBELLS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4882 10219 4855 10232 4855 10260 4869 10276
      4893 10262
TIME...MOT...LOC 0100Z 294DEG 32KT 4880 10251

$$

SIMOSKO

1 follow-up statement

581 
WWUS53 KBIS 250118
SVSBIS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
818 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

NDC013-250130-
/O.CON.KBIS.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-100625T0130Z/
BURKE ND-
818 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL BURKE COUNTY UNTIL
830 PM CDT...

AT 818 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD.  A
TORNADO MAY DEVELOP AT ANY TIME. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR COTEAU...OR 47 MILES EAST OF CROSBY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40
MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN BURKE COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4882 10219 4855 10232 4855 10260 4869 10276
      4893 10262
TIME...MOT...LOC 0118Z 323DEG 36KT 4871 10231

$$

SIMOSKO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke	62 min
Jun 24, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Divide	23 min
Jun 24, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burke	28 min
Jun 24, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder	64 min
Jun 24, 8:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons	27 min
Jun 24, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Mountrail, Ward	65 min
Jun 24, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Mountrail, Ward	26 min
Jun 24, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan	65 min
Jun 24, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Williams	53 min
Jun 24, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail, Ward	61 min
Jun 24, 9:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Emmons	6 hr
Jun 24, 9:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Ward	26 min
Jun 24, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail, Ward	48 min
Jun 24, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder, Sheridan	56 min
Jun 24, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Ward	46 min
Jun 24, 9:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Mountrail, Ward	33 min
Jun 24, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan, McIntosh	61 min
Jun 24, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan	50 min
Jun 24, 10:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Ward	28 min
Jun 24, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Sheridan, Wells	39 min
Jun 24, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Ward	62 min
Jun 24, 10:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Ward	6 hr
Jun 24, 10:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Logan	5 hr
Jun 24, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan	64 min
Jun 24, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie	38 min
Jun 24, 11:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan	33 min
Jun 24, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry, Pierce	47 min
Jun 25, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean	53 min
Jun 25, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mountrail, Ward	40 min
Jun 25, 12:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean, Mountrail, Ward	28 min
Jun 25, 12:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	McLean, Mountrail, Ward	6 hr
Jun 25, 1:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean, Mountrail, Ward	45 min
Jun 25, 1:36 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	McLean, Mercer	3 hr
Jun 25, 1:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	47 min
Jun 25, 2:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie	54 min
Jun 25, 2:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	64 min
Jun 25, 12:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Oliver	54 min
Jun 25, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton, Oliver	63 min
Jun 25, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	53 min
Jun 25, 4:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Burleigh, Morton, Oliver	3 hr
Jun 25, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	54 min
Jun 25, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton	30 min
Jun 25, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer, Morton, Stark	46 min
Jun 25, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton, Sioux	65 min
Jun 25, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	65 min
Jun 25, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McKenzie, Mountrail	62 min
Jun 25, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan, McIntosh	63 min
Jun 25, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	66 min
Jun 25, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Emmons, McIntosh	29 min
Jun 25, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton	61 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.