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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 19, 2011Golden Valley County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2011, 6:36 PM MDT for Golden Valley County, North Dakota. It was in force for 24 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 19, 2011, 6:36 PM MDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2011, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Golden Valley County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 245 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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 nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 167 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

634 
WFUS53 KBIS 200036
TORBIS
NDC033-200100-
/O.NEW.KBIS.TO.W.0014.110620T0036Z-110620T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
636 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 630 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
  NEAR GOLVA...OR 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WIBAUX. A TORNADO MAY DEVELOP
  AT ANY TIME. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS DANGEROUS STORM MOVING EAST
  AT 5 MPH.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL
  GOLDEN VALLEY 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.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK AT
701-223-4582.

&&

LAT...LON 4668 10405 4684 10406 4689 10378 4665 10378
      4665 10406 4667 10406
TIME...MOT...LOC 0036Z 263DEG 3KT 4675 10398

$$

SCHECK

1 follow-up statement

021 
WWUS53 KBIS 200057
SVSBIS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
757 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2011

NDC033-200107-
/O.EXP.KBIS.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-110620T0100Z/
GOLDEN VALLEY ND-
657 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 800 PM CDT/700 PM MDT/...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK AT
701-223-4582.

LAT...LON 4668 10405 4684 10406 4689 10378 4665 10378
      4665 10406 4667 10406
TIME...MOT...LOC 0057Z 263DEG 3KT 4675 10395

$$

SCHECK/AYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 7:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Golden Valley	3 hr
Jun 19, 10:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Mountrail	17 hr
Jun 20, 12:04 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Stutsman	5 hr
Jun 20, 4:58 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	25 min
Jun 20, 5:19 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	6 hr
Jun 20, 1:12 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Oliver	33 min
Jun 20, 1:31 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	McLean	29 min
Jun 20, 1:46 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton	29 min
Jun 20, 2:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Mercer	30 min
Jun 20, 5:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Oliver	12 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.