Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 48, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 2, 2004, 3:04 AM CDT for Otter Tail County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 2, 2004, 3:04 AM CDT (08:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2004, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Otter Tail County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 3501 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1092 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.8
- Supercell composite
- 15.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 020804 TORFGF MNC111-020845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 304 AM CDT MON AUG 2 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OTTER TAIL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 345 AM CDT. * AT 301 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 8 MILES WEST OF ERHARD... OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF FERGUS FALLS...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PELICAN RAPIDS AT 310 AM... LAKE LIDA AT 315 AM... ERHARD AT 320 AM AND ELIZABETH AT 325 AM. 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 4661 9626 4615 9623 4614 9571 4660 9570 $$ GV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 30 min |
| Aug 2, 3:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 30 min |
| Aug 2, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 6:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant | 24 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.