Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2002, 7:04 PM CDT for Ramsey County, Walsh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 41 min. 3 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 23, 2002, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ramsey County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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 23, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Lawton, ND | This tornado crossed into Walsh county. |
| Aug 23, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Lankin, ND | This tornado originated in Ramsey county. |
| Aug 23, 7:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Webster, 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 815 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 26 min |
| Aug 23, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pembina | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ramsey | 49 min |
| Aug 23, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.