Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1997, 12:08 AM CDT for Grand Forks County, Steele County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 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 28, 1997, 12:08 AM CDT (05:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1997, 12:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grand Forks County, ND, Steele County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:08 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 28, 12:30 AM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Hatton, ND | |
| Jun 28, 12:40 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Golden Lake, 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, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 256 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.
907 WFUS1 KFAR 280509 TORFAR NDC035-091-280545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 1208 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1240 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA ...SOUTHWESTERN GRAND FORKS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA ...NORTHERN STEELE COUNTY AT 1208 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF NORTHWEST OR 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RED WILLOW LAKE AND BINFORD ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. 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. RA
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, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Nelson | 25 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, 12:42 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.