Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 52, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 2004, 4:58 PM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota; Pembina County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 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, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kittson County, MN, Pembina County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
| Aug 8, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 313 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 082158 TORFGF MNC069-NDC067-082230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 457 PM CDT SUN AUG 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA PEMBINA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 530 PM CDT. * AT 456 PM...A TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM SPOTTERS IN KITTSON AND PEMBINA COUNTIES. RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PEMBINA...OR ABOUT 39 MILES NORTH OF GRAFTON...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ST. VINCENT AT 500 PM... NORTHCOTE AT 505 PM... HUMBOLDT AT 510 PM AND NOYES AT 515 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 4898 9790 4856 9791 4858 9683 4916 9717 $$ 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, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 47 min |
| 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, 4:59 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 |
| Aug 8, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy, Griggs | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pembina | 51 min |
| Aug 8, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Walsh | 52 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Minnesota, 2004Tornado Warnings in North Dakota, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes in 2004
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.