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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 2004, 3:43 PM CDT for Kittson County, Roseau 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
- Aug 8, 2004, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2004, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kittson County, MN, Roseau County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 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 082043 TORFGF MNC069-135-082130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 340 PM CDT SUN AUG 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA WEST CENTRAL ROSEAU COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 430 PM CDT. * AT 338 PM...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY A TRAINED SPOTTER 1 MILE EAST OF LAKE BRONSON OR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROSEAU MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LEO AT 430 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 4877 9658 4861 9648 4868 9609 4891 9624 $$ TJG/PAB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay | 43 min |
| Aug 8, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Pennington, Polk | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 16 min |
| Aug 8, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 6:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Kittson | 12 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 61 min |
| Aug 8, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Red Lake | 50 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.