Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2004, 6:43 PM CDT for Grand Forks County, North Dakota; Polk County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 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, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Polk County, MN, Grand Forks County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 192343 TORFGF MNC119-NDC035-200030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 643 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN GRAND FORKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT. * AT 638 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BYGLAND...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... DAVIDSON AT 645 PM... FISHER AT 650 PM... CROOKSTON AT 700 PM AND HAROLD AT 705 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 4786 9708 4768 9706 4766 9649 4797 9655 $$ VOELKER/04
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Griggs | 44 min |
| May 19, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Towner | 53 min |
| May 19, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Nelson | 49 min |
| May 19, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ramsey | 52 min |
| May 19, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Ramsey | 61 min |
| May 19, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 49 min |
| May 19, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pembina | 48 min |
| May 19, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Walsh | 52 min |
| May 19, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Walsh | 48 min |
| May 19, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Pembina | 60 min |
| May 19, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 65 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 2004Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes in 2004
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.