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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 11, 2004Barnes County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2004, 6:51 PM CDT for Barnes County, North Dakota. It was in force for 24 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
Jun 11, 2004, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barnes County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 11, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2004-06-11Temperature 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2004-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -76 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175194214233253272Sfc1 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
913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 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.

000 
WFUS53 KFGF 112351
TORFGF
NDC003-120015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
651 PM CDT FRI JUN 11 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  NORTH CENTRAL BARNES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT.

* AT 643 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER DAZEY...OR ABOUT 19
  MILES NORTHWEST OF VALLEY CITY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...

  SIBLEY 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 4715 9837 4709 9816 4723 9788 4723 9833

$$

VOELKER/04

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBenson39 min
Jun 11, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBarnes52 min
Jun 11, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBenson48 min
Jun 11, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFEddy50 min
Jun 11, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFGriggs31 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.