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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 3, 2011Stutsman County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2011, 2:13 AM CDT for Stutsman 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: Jun 3, 2011, 2:13 AM CDT (07:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2011, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Stutsman County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:13 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 2, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr
Jun 3, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 2239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

466 
WFUS53 KBIS 030713
TORBIS
NDC093-030745-
/O.NEW.KBIS.TO.W.0002.110603T0713Z-110603T0745Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
213 AM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 245 AM CDT

* AT 208 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS 
  STORM WAS LOCATED 31 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN NEAR THE         
  COMMUNITY OF WOODWORTH...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN
  STUTSMAN COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS EDMUNDS.

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 4708 9921 4718 9943 4732 9936 4733 9885
      4732 9884
TIME...MOT...LOC 0712Z 223DEG 27KT 4714 9927

$$

WETZEL/TARDIF-HUBER

2 follow-up statements

737 
WWUS53 KBIS 030731
SVSBIS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
231 AM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011

NDC093-030745-
/O.CON.KBIS.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110603T0745Z/
STUTSMAN ND-
231 AM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN STUTSMAN
COUNTY UNTIL 245 AM CDT...

AT 227 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 29 MILES SOUTH OF NEW ROCKFORD...OR 35 MILES
NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

IN ADDITION...AT 225 AM CDT, 60 MPH WIND GUST WAS REPORTED IN 
CARRINGTON WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS.

THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN
STUTSMAN 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 4732 9884 4713 9912 4721 9942 4732 9936
      4733 9886
TIME...MOT...LOC 0729Z 201DEG 23KT 4727 9923

$$

WETZEL/TARDIF-HUBER

694 
WWUS53 KBIS 030739
SVSBIS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
239 AM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011

NDC093-030747-
/O.EXP.KBIS.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110603T0745Z/
STUTSMAN ND-
239 AM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN STUTSMAN COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 245 AM CDT/145 AM MDT/...

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

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

LAT...LON 4732 9884 4713 9912 4721 9942 4732 9936
      4733 9886
TIME...MOT...LOC 0737Z 201DEG 23KT 4732 9920

$$
WETZEL/TARDIF-HUBER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Bottineau, Rolette	8 days
Jun 2, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Sioux	51 min
Jun 2, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	45 min
Jun 2, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Rolette	54 min
Jun 2, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry	36 min
Jun 2, 9:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Bottineau, McHenry, Rolette	5 hr
Jun 2, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau, Rolette	66 min
Jun 2, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	63 min
Jun 3, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Logan, McIntosh	56 min
Jun 3, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder, Stutsman	57 min
Jun 3, 1:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman, Wells	64 min
Jun 3, 3:36 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 17 more	17 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.