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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Grand Forks, ND

May 19, 2004Kittson County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2004, 6:40 PM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 65 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
May 19, 2004, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kittson County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 268 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, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2004-05-19Temperature 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, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2004-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-21 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.

614 
WFUS53 KFGF 192340
TORFGF
MNC069-200045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
640 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT.

* AT 638 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 2 MILES SOUTH OF NOYES...
  OR ABOUT 39 MILES NORTH OF GRAFTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH.
  THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO IN THE PEMBINA
  COUNTY AREA OF NORTH DAKOTA.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...

  HUMBOLDT AT 645 PM...
  NORTHCOTE AT 650 PM...
  ORLEANS AT 655 PM AND
  LANCASTER AT 700 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 4907 9729 4883 9714 4871 9643 4903 9643

$$

DK/ME

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFPolk47 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.