Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 60, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 2001, 6:06 PM CDT for Benson County, North Dakota. It was in force for 39 min. 2 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
- Aug 8, 2001, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Benson County, ND
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 6:23 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Maddock, ND | Branches were blown down. |
| Aug 8, 6:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Oberon, ND | Several trees were blown over. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -573 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
386 WFUS53 KFGF 082307 TORFAR NDC005-082345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 606 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BENSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. * UNTIL 645 PM CDT. * AT 601 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ESMOND...OR ABOUT 45 MILES WEST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ESMOND AT 610 PM CDT... MADDOCK AT 620 PM CDT AND FLORA AT 625 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 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4807 9988 4789 9990 4786 9911 4804 9909 $$ DTR/06 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Steele | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Steele, Traill | 64 min |
| Aug 8, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ramsey | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 48 min |
| Aug 8, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson | 52 min |
| Aug 8, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Benson, Ramsey | 48 min |
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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.