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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 13, 2001Grant County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 5:43 PM CDT for Grant County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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
Jun 13, 2001, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Grant County, MN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 216 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2001-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2001-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1179 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

162 
WFUS53 KFGF 132245
TORFAR
MNC051-132315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
543 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GRANT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 539 PM CDT...THE GRANT COUNTY SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 
BETWEEN HOFFMAN AND BARRET AT 540 PM CDT...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTH 
OF FERGUS FALLS...  MOVEMENT WAS JUST EAST OF NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ERDAHL AT 550 PM CDT...
  ELBOW LAKE AT 550 PM CDT...
  ASHBY AT 555 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4578 9623 4577 9592 4608 9568 4609 9611


$$
DJK


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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrant37 min
Jun 13, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail48 min
Jun 13, 6:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFGrant, Otter Tail4 hr
Jun 13, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGrant52 min
Jun 13, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail33 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.