Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 61, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 2001, 6:42 PM CDT for Benson County, Ramsey County, North Dakota. It was in force for 48 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
- Aug 8, 2001, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Benson County, ND, Ramsey County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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.
238 WFUS53 KFGF 082344 TORFAR NDC005-071-090030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 642 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BENSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHERN RAMSEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. * UNTIL 730 PM CDT. * AT 637 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF OBERON...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... FORT TOTTEN AT 655 PM CDT... ST MICHAEL AT 700 PM CDT... TOKIO AT 705 PM CDT AND LOCATIONS SOUTH OF HIGHWAY TWO IN RAMSEY COUNTY AT 715 PM CDT. * RADAR SHOWS STRONG ROTATION WITH THIS STORM AND A LIKELY TORNADO. 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 4810 9933 4786 9936 4786 9859 4809 9859 $$ 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, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Benson | 39 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.