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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 1, 1987Polk County, Red Lake County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 1987, 5:15 PM CDT for Polk County, Red Lake County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1987, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1987, 5:40 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 234 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 1987-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 1987-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 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.

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 012215
TORFAR
MNC119-125-012240-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
515 PM CDT WED JUL 1 1987

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 540 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF

NORTHWEST MINNESOTA...EXTREME EASTERN POLK AND EXTREME EASTERN RED
LAKE

AT 510 PM CDT POLK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICERS REPORT A FUNNEL CLOUD
IN THE OKLEE AREA OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA..25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
THIEF RIVRE FALLS.  RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
THE SAME GENERAL AREA MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 25 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A
REINFORCED SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...
VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.

EWENS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk, Red Lake34 min
Jul 1, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClearwater35 min

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.