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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Bismarck, ND
NWS Bismarck, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2016, 9:11 PM CDT for Foster County, Stutsman County, North Dakota. It was in force for 34 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
- Jul 9, 2016, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2016, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Bismarck, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.75 in
Counties Foster County, ND, Stutsman County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
773
WFUS53 KBIS 100211
TORBIS
NDC031-093-100245-
/O.NEW.KBIS.TO.W.0019.160710T0211Z-160710T0245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
911 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL STUTSMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHWESTERN FOSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...
* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
* AT 911 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF CARRINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 25 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 DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
BORDULAC AROUND 920 PM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
EDMUNDS AND MELVILLE.
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 4740 9926 4749 9904 4724 9872 4714 9905
TIME...MOT...LOC 0211Z 317DEG 22KT 4737 9911
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN
$$
SCHILD1 follow-up statement
469
WWUS53 KBIS 100231
SVSBIS
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
931 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016
NDC031-093-100245-
/O.CON.KBIS.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-160710T0245Z/
STUTSMAN ND-FOSTER ND-
931 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL STUTSMAN AND SOUTHWESTERN FOSTER COUNTIES...
AT 931 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BORDULAC...OR 11 MILES SOUTH OF
CARRINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE
IS LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CARRINGTON...BORDULAC...MELVILLE AND EDMUNDS.
LAT...LON 4739 9925 4749 9904 4724 9872 4714 9905
TIME...MOT...LOC 0231Z 318DEG 19KT 4729 9904
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN
$$
SCHILDThe 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, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Foster, Wells | 25 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, 9:29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.