Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2000, 6:52 PM CDT for Grand Forks County, North Dakota. It was in force for 33 min. 4 reports 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, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2000, 7:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Grand Forks County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Grand Forks Afb, ND | Air traffic controllers at the GFAFB ATC tower reported a brief tornado touchdown. |
| Jun 12, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Niagara, ND | |
| Jun 12, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Larimore, ND | |
| Jun 12, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Honeyford, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
742 WFUS53 KFGF 122354 TORFAR NDC035-130025- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 652 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN GRAND FORKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 725 PM CDT * AT 651 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF LARIMORE...OR ABOUT 29 MILES WEST OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MCCANNA AT 700 PM CDT HONEYFORD AT 720 PM CDT GILBY AT 725 PM CDT DO NOT OUTRUN A TORNADO IN YOUR CAR. LEAVE YOUR CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING OR SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. LAT...LON 4795 9789 4782 9770 4807 9728 4818 9751 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, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Walsh | 33 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, 6:54 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.