Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2002, 5:16 PM CDT for Polk County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2002, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Polk County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
211 WFUS53 KFGF 262216 TORFAR MNC119-262300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 516 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. * UNTIL 600 PM CDT. * AT 513 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 2 MILES EAST OF ERSKINE... OR ABOUT 32 MILES SOUTH OF THIEF RIVER FALLS...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MCINTOSH AT 520 PM AND OLGA AT 530 PM. 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 900 PM MONDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4774 9603 4760 9609 4752 9570 4773 9562 8 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington, Red Lake | 44 min |
| Aug 26, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pennington, Red Lake | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk, Red Lake | 45 min |
| Aug 26, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington | 44 min |
| Aug 26, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Otter Tail | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 40 min |
| Aug 26, 5:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Red Lake | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Red Lake | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman | 61 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.