Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2000, 9:46 PM CDT for Polk 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
- Jun 12, 2000, 9:46 PM CDT (02:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Polk County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 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, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | East Grand Forks, MN |
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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 130247 TORFAR MNC119-NDC035-130315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 946 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 943 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR EAST GRAND FORKS...OR ABOUT 3 EAST OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... TABOR AT 1000 PM CDT ANGUS AT 1015 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDINoG. LAT...LON 4798 9715 4786 9696 4804 9665 4819 9687 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 9:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 32 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.