Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2001, 2:12 PM CDT for Grand Forks County, Steele County, Traill County, North Dakota. It was in force for 33 min. 3 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 20, 2001, 2:12 PM CDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2001, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Grand Forks County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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 20, 2:43 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Sharon, ND | |
| Jun 20, 2:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Hatton, ND | |
| Jun 20, 2:52 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Northwood, 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 nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 201913 TORFAR NDC035-091-097-201945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 212 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN GRAND FORKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... NORTHEASTERN STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... NORTHWESTERN TRAILL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 211 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KEMPTON...OR ABOUT 31 MILES WEST OF GRAND FORKS...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... KEMPTON AT 215 PM CDT... NORTHWOOD AT 225 PM CDT... HATTON AT 245 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 4792 9778 4760 9775 4758 9720 4790 9723 $$ BRAMER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 37 min |
| Jun 19, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 31 min |
| Jun 20, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Ramsey | 49 min |
| Jun 20, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Nelson | 46 min |
| Jun 20, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Benson, Ramsey | 32 min |
| Jun 20, 1:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Nelson | 34 min |
| Jun 20, 1:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Benson, Eddy, Nelson | 31 min |
| Jun 20, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Eddy, Nelson | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Traill | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Traill | 31 min |
| Jun 20, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Steele | 44 min |
| Jun 20, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 29 min |
| Jun 20, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Traill | 30 min |
| Jun 20, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Ransom | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Steele | 25 min |
| Jun 20, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland | 32 min |
| Jun 20, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 28 min |
| Jun 20, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 33 min |
| Jun 20, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass | 42 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.