Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1997, 10:05 PM CDT for Nelson 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 counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1997, 10:05 PM CDT (03:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1997, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nelson County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 10:06 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Aneta, ND | |
| Jun 27, 10:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Aneta, ND |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 2650 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
441 WFUS1 KFAR 280307 RRA TORFAR NDC063-280330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 1005 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA ...SOUTHERN NELSON COUNTY AT 1005 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO LOCATED NEAR THE TOWN OF MCVILLE...OR 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRAND FORKS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE MCVILLE AND ANETA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR UNDER STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS. STRAGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 25 min |
| Jun 27, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 35 min |
| Jun 27, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Traill | 40 min |
| Jun 27, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 27 min |
| Jun 27, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 25 min |
| Jun 27, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Traill | 36 min |
| Jun 28, 12:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Steele | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Steele | 33 min |
| Jun 28, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Steele | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 8:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 27 min |
| Jun 28, 8:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 28 min |
| Jun 28, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Sargent | 38 min |
| Jun 28, 10:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland, Sargent | 31 min |
| Jun 28, 11:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland | 28 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.