Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at May 23, 1994, 5:40 PM CDT for Otter Tail County, Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1994, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1994, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Otter Tail County, MN, Wilkin County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 23, 3:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
NDZ007-008-016-026>030-038-039-048-049-051>053-MNZ001>004- 007-008-013>015-022-024-027>032-039>041-047-232135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 342 PM CDT MON MAY 23 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING INTO EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA... AT 325 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF JAMESTOWN NORTH DAKOTA...NEAR HANNAFORD AND DAZEY. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTING STRIKES...AND STRONG WIND GUSTS AS IT MOVES ACROSS EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL PASS THROUGH ON NEAR THE FOLLOWING CITIES OR TOWNS BY 430 PM CDT...HANNAFORD...DAZEY...HOPE...PILLSBURY...COLGATE... PAGE...AND BLANCHARD. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR ONE OF THE ABOVE LISTED CITIES OR TOWNS YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLITY OF THE WEATHER CONDITIONS MENTIONED AND GO TO A SAFE PLACE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED YOUR LOCATION. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO PUSHING INTO EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. THESE STORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTH OF JAMESTOWN TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRAND FORKS. THE MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO EAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER OUR REGION HAS BECOME VERY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON. THE POTENTIAL FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS HIGH. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATIONS F*OR UPDATES ON THIS EVENINGS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. DM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 57 min |
| May 23, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Norman | 65 min |
| May 23, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clay | 56 min |
| May 23, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater | 31 min |
| May 23, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 49 min |
| May 23, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 69 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.