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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 8, 2000Wadena County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2000, 9:16 PM CDT for Wadena County, Minnesota. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2000, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Wadena County, MN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 8, 9:20 PM CDT	Tornado F2	Verndale, MN	A tornado that formed near Verndale intensified as it reached the Aldrich area. A mobile home, garage, barn, and 3 vehicles were destroyed 3 miles east of Aldrich. Two people, inside the mobile home when the tornado hit, suffered cuts, bruises, and a spraine

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 nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 207 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3971 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1312 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 17.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KFGF 090217
TORFAR

MNC159-090245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
916 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WADENA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 913 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER VERNDALE...OR ABOUT 31 MILES WEST OF BAXTER...MOVEMENT
  WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS OF
  SOUTHEASTERN WADENA COUNTY
  
THE RADAR IS SHOWING STRONG INDICATIONS OF TORNADIC ROTATION. 
PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST WADENA COUNTY SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW!

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



LAT...LON 4651 9503 4638 9503 4638 9479 4653 9478

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	30 min
Jul 8, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	29 min
Jul 8, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Wadena	31 min
Jul 8, 9:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	18 min
Jul 8, 9:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wadena	4 hr
Jul 8, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	30 min
Jul 8, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	47 min

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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.