Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2002, 1:29 PM CDT for Otter Tail County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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
- Jul 7, 2002, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2002, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Otter Tail County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 579 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 071829 TORFAR MNC111-071915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 129 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OTTER TAIL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. * UNTIL 215 PM CDT. * AT 125 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES SOUTH OF VINING... OR ABOUT 27 MILES EAST OF FERGUS FALLS...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... VINING AT 135 PM... ALMORA AT 150 PM... HENNING AT 155 PM AND WRIGHTSTOWN AT 205 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4619 9570 4614 9542 4629 9516 4652 9540 30 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 10:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Marshall | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods | 43 min |
| Jul 7, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 25 min |
| Jul 7, 2:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wadena | 47 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.