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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 12, 2000Walsh County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2000, 5:12 PM CDT for Walsh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 33 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: Jun 12, 2000, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Walsh County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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 12, 5:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Grafton, 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 12, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 296 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: 80 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -312 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1408 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

577 
WFUS53 KFGF 122213
TORFAR
NDC099-122245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
512 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN WALSH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 511 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VESELEYVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF GRAFTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  VOSS AT 515 PM CDT
  MINTO AT 525 PM CDT
  GRAFTON AT 535 PM CDT
  OAKWOOD AT 545 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.

LAT...LON 4831 9771 4818 9752 4837 9722 4851 9743

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Benson, Towner	32 min
Jun 12, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Walsh	29 min
Jun 12, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Pembina	29 min
Jun 12, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Walsh	32 min
Jun 12, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Griggs, Nelson	29 min
Jun 12, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Pembina, Walsh	31 min
Jun 12, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grand Forks, Nelson	32 min
Jun 12, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grand Forks, Nelson	31 min
Jun 12, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Walsh	32 min
Jun 12, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grand Forks, Nelson	33 min
Jun 12, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Grand Forks	31 min
Jun 12, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Nelson	30 min
Jun 12, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Grand Forks	33 min
Jun 12, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Griggs, Nelson	31 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.