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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 6, 2003Beltrami County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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 6, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Beltrami County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 218 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 6, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 360 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 735 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1169 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 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.

570 
WFUS53 KFGF 062215
TORFGF
MNC007-062300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
515 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  NORTHERN BELTRAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT.

* AT 511 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  PONEMAH...OR ABOUT 33 MILES NORTH OF BEMIDJI...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...

  SAUM AT 520 PM...
  SHOTLEY AT 525 PM AND
  KELLIHER AT 535 PM.

A WALL CLOUD HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.

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 4803 9500 4785 9494 4799 9376 4825 9385

$$
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Polk	45 min
Jul 6, 4:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Red Lake	40 min
Jul 6, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods, Roseau	46 min
Jul 6, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods	30 min
Jul 6, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods	31 min
Jul 6, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	65 min
Jul 6, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clearwater	66 min
Jul 6, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Hubbard	62 min
Jul 6, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	40 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.