Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 58, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 31, 2001, 5:39 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 2001, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 197 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2851 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 312239 TORFAR MNC007-077-312315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 539 PM CDT TUE JUL 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHWESTERN BELTRAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND SOUTHERN LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. * UNTIL 615 PM CDT. * AT 535 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF GATES CORNER...OR ABOUT 33 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROSEAU...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OAKS CORNER AT 600 PM CDT AND FAUNCE AT 605 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4853 9541 4838 9537 4843 9468 4865 9473 $$ 7 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington, Red Lake | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 28 min |
| Jul 31, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Kittson, Marshall, Roseau | 28 min |
| Jul 31, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 28 min |
| Jul 31, 5:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods | 38 min |
| Jul 31, 11:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 39 min |
| Jul 31, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 48 min |
| Jul 31, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 64 min |
| Jul 31, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington | 32 min |
| Jul 31, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods | 59 min |
| Jul 31, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington, Polk | 25 min |
| Jul 31, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 40 min |
| Jul 31, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 31 min |
| Jul 31, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Marshall | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 4:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Marshall | 6 hr |
| Jul 31, 4:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Polk | 4 hr |
| Jul 31, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 51 min |
| Jul 31, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 44 min |
| Jul 31, 6:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Roseau | 6 hr |
| Jul 31, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 32 min |
| Jul 31, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 6:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 6 hr |
| Jul 31, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 36 min |
| Jul 31, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk, Red Lake | 36 min |
| Jul 31, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.