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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Grand Forks, ND

May 19, 2004Kittson County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2004, 7:44 PM CDT for Kittson 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: May 19, 2004, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 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), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 260 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KFGF 200044
TORFGF
MNC069-200130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
743 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 830 PM CDT.

* AT 741 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES EAST OF KENNEDY...
  OR ABOUT 32 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAFTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 
  30 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AS IT
  MOVED ACROSS THE WEST AND SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...

  LAKE BRONSON AT 750 PM AND
  HALMA AT 755 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 4883 9712 4860 9710 4857 9643 4881 9642

$$

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, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Marshall	59 min
May 19, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Polk	56 min
May 19, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Clay	40 min
May 19, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Marshall	64 min
May 19, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Red Lake	60 min
May 19, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Polk	61 min
May 19, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Pennington, Red Lake	47 min
May 19, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	42 min

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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.