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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Bismarck, ND

June 2, 2015McLean County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2015, 5:07 PM CDT for McLean County, North Dakota. It was in force for 23 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 2, 2015, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2015, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

County McLean County, ND

The radar

The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

822 
WFUS53 KBIS 022207
TORBIS
NDC055-022230-
/O.NEW.KBIS.TO.W.0003.150602T2207Z-150602T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
507 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN MCLEAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
    
* AT 507 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTH OF PARSHALL...OR 34 MILES WEST
  OF GARRISON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHWESTERN MCLEAN COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
  RAUB.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4784 10193 4773 10192 4772 10218 4785 10219
TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 254DEG 13KT 4778 10212 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

JONES

1 follow-up statement

121 
WWUS53 KBIS 022214
SVSBIS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
514 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 2015

NDC055-022230-
/O.CON.KBIS.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-150602T2230Z/
MCLEAN ND-
514 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN MCLEAN COUNTY...
    
AT 514 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF ROSEGLEN...OR 30 MILES WEST OF
GARRISON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
         SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE 
         TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE DAMAGE IS 
         LIKELY. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RAUB.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4784 10193 4773 10192 4773 10213 4781 10214
TIME...MOT...LOC 2214Z 267DEG 17KT 4778 10205 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

JONES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 7:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Bottineau	39 min
Jun 1, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	43 min
Jun 1, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McLean	50 min
Jun 1, 8:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Rolette	40 min
Jun 1, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	56 min
Jun 1, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer	32 min
Jun 1, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer	54 min
Jun 1, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	31 min
Jun 1, 11:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dunn	26 min
Jun 1, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dunn, Mercer, Oliver	44 min
Jun 2, 12:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Oliver	48 min
Jun 2, 12:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Oliver	8 hr
Jun 2, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Billings, Golden Valley	48 min
Jun 2, 5:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan	49 min
Jun 2, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Sioux	62 min
Jun 2, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dunn	44 min
Jun 2, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer, Morton, Stark	56 min
Jun 2, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mountrail	62 min
Jun 2, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	53 min
Jun 2, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton, Stark	35 min
Jun 2, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	57 min
Jun 2, 4:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Mountrail	52 min
Jun 2, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton, Sioux	61 min
Jun 2, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Foster	39 min
Jun 2, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Morton, Sioux	66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.