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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 9, 2016Foster County, Wells County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2016, 8:20 PM CDT for Foster County, Wells County, North Dakota. It was in force for 25 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: Jul 9, 2016, 8:20 PM CDT (01:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2016, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.75 in

Counties Foster County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 9, 8:30 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Barlow, ND	ARB OBSERVER ESTIMATED HAIL OCCURRED AROUND 830 PM CDT
Jul 9, 8:40 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	6 Wsw Barlow, ND	CLEAR WALL CLOUD OBSERVED WITH FUNNEL OBSERVED MULTIPLE TIMES.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 3085 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 20.1

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The text

As transmitted.

065 
WFUS53 KBIS 100120
TORBIS
NDC031-103-100145-
/O.NEW.KBIS.TO.W.0017.160710T0120Z-160710T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
820 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN FOSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...
  EAST CENTRAL WELLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT
    
* AT 820 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CATHAY...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  CARRINGTON... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL 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 FOSTER AND EAST CENTRAL WELLS COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE
  FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: BARLOW.

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 4755 9903 4743 9932 4763 9948 4771 9937
      4766 9926 4759 9927 4759 9911
TIME...MOT...LOC 0120Z 320DEG 18KT 4761 9936 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

SCHILD

1 follow-up statement

928 
WWUS53 KBIS 100135
SVSBIS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
835 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

NDC031-103-100145-
/O.CON.KBIS.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-160710T0145Z/
FOSTER ND-WELLS ND-
835 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN FOSTER AND EAST CENTRAL WELLS COUNTIES...
    
AT 835 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF CATHAY...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF
CARRINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL 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...
CATHAY AND BARLOW. 

LAT...LON 4755 9903 4743 9932 4760 9946 4769 9932
      4766 9926 4759 9927 4759 9911
TIME...MOT...LOC 0135Z 320DEG 24KT 4753 9927 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

SCHILD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Pierce	47 min
Jul 9, 8:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Wells	44 min
Jul 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Grant, Sioux	54 min
Jul 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Wells	54 min
Jul 9, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Foster	34 min
Jul 9, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Wells	43 min
Jul 9, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton, Sioux	60 min
Jul 9, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	34 min
Jul 9, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Wells	46 min
Jul 9, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman, Wells	37 min
Jul 9, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman, Wells	61 min
Jul 9, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton, Sioux	40 min
Jul 9, 9:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman, Wells	6 hr
Jul 9, 10:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Logan	41 min
Jul 9, 10:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Wells	39 min
Jul 9, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	60 min
Jul 9, 11:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	Stutsman	6 hr
Jul 9, 11:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Logan, McIntosh	40 min
Jul 9, 11:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Golden Valley, Slope	49 min
Jul 9, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure, Stutsman	59 min
Jul 10, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Billings	57 min
Jul 10, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Stark	58 min
Jul 10, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Stark	58 min
Jul 10, 2:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Mercer, Oliver, Sheridan	60 min
Jul 10, 4:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Emmons, Kidder	46 min
Jul 10, 6:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	63 min
Jul 10, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Golden Valley	38 min
Jul 10, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie	56 min
Jul 10, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope	62 min
Jul 10, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn	64 min
Jul 10, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope	50 min
Jul 10, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie	42 min
Jul 10, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dunn, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail, Ward	53 min
Jul 10, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Hettinger, Slope and 1 more	51 min
Jul 10, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	McKenzie	41 min
Jul 10, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Billings, Dunn, Grant, Hettinger, Mercer and 5 more	54 min
Jul 10, 6:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burke	31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.