Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 65, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2001, 9:28 PM CDT for Eddy County, North Dakota. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2001, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2001, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eddy County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | New Rockford, ND | A brief touchdown was reported. |
| Aug 14, 9:36 PM CDT | Hail 1 | New Rockford, 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 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 2390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
167
WUUS53 KFGF 150231
TORFAR
NDC027-150315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
928 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EDDY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.
* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT.
* AT 926 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 27 MILES
SOUTH OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT AREAS NEAR
NEW ROCKORD...BRANTFORD...AND RURAL EASTERN EDDY COUNTY THROUGH
1015 PM CDT
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
$$
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NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 39 min |
| Aug 14, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Eddy | 24 min |
| Aug 14, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 9:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Eddy | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Nelson | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 38 min |
| Aug 14, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 42 min |
| Aug 14, 11:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Griggs | 39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.