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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 7, 2005Sargent County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2005, 11:42 PM CDT for Sargent County, North Dakota. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2005, 11:42 PM CDT (04:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2005, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sargent County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:42 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 8, 12:30 AM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Cayuga, ND	TREES DOWN ALL OVER TOWN, ONE FELL ON A HOUSE.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 7, 9:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KFGF 080442
TORFGF
NDC081-080530-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0016.050608T0442Z-050608T0530Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
1142 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SARGENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1136 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A     
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
BRITTON...OR 70 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAHPETON...MOVING TO THE 
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FORMAN...COGSWELL AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STIRUM AT 1150 PM
  GWINNER AT 1155 PM

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A STURDY BUILDING.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. A TORNADO
WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR
NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4597 9793 4597 9733 4624 9730 4623 9796

$$

DK/JDS

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 080501
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
1201 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2005

NDC081-080530-
/O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-050608T0530Z/
SARGENT ND-
1201 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR CENTRAL SARGENT
COUNTY...

AT 1158 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES
NORTHEAST OF MILNOR...OR 38 MILES WEST OF WAHPETON...MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A STURDY BUILDING.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4597 9793 4597 9733 4624 9730 4623 9796

$$

DK/JDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Ransom, Richland, Sargent	66 min
Jun 8, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Barnes, Cass	56 min
Jun 8, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Ransom, Richland, Sargent	61 min
Jun 8, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Pembina	34 min
Jun 8, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Pembina	24 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.