Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT for Cavalier County, Pembina County, North Dakota. It was in force for 60 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, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cavalier County, ND, Pembina County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 132 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
363 WFUS53 KFGF 192345 TORFGF NDC019-067-200045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 645 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CAVALIER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA SOUTHERN PEMBINA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT. * AT 642 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 2 MILES SOUTH OF MILTON... OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LANGDON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GARDAR AT 650 PM... HENSEL AT 700 PM... ST. THOMAS AT 715 PM AND JOLIETTE AT 725 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 4869 9816 4856 9816 4861 9719 4882 9721 $$ DK/ME
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, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.