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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 19, 2000Clay County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2000, 8:03 PM CDT for Clay County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2000, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2000, 8:35 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Clay County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 266 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 609 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 176 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
609 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

844 
WFUS53 KFGF 200104
TORFAR
MNC027-200135-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
803 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 835 PM CDT

* AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF AVERILL...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF FARGO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  FELTON AT 805 PM CDT
  ULEN AT 830 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO
ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFClay29 min
Jun 19, 7:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFClay3 hr
Jun 19, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClay29 min
Jun 19, 10:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFClay5 hr
Jun 20, 12:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFNorman4 hr
Jun 20, 1:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFPolk3 hr
Jun 20, 1:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFMahnomen, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake2 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.