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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 8, 2005Pembina County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2005, 4:36 PM CDT for Pembina County, North Dakota. It was in force for 24 min. 3 reports 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 8, 2005, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pembina County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 8, 4:40 PM CDT	HAIL 1	3 E Leroy, ND
Jun 8, 4:45 PM CDT	TORNADO	6 N Cavalier, ND
Jun 8, 4:53 PM CDT	TORNADO	1 Sw Neche, ND

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

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 324 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KFGF 082137
TORFGF
NDC067-082200-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0017.050608T2136Z-050608T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
436 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN PEMBINA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 433 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES   
SOUTHEAST OF FAIRDALE...OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAVALIER AT 426 PM. 
THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR NECHE AT 445 PM.

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

LAT...LON 4892 9792 4874 9770 4898 9737 4898 9779

$$

JCA

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 082144
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
443 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005

NDC067-082200-
/O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-050608T2200Z/
PEMBINA ND-
443 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
PEMBINA COUNTY...

AT 437 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO.  THE TORNADO WAS
LOCATED 3 MILES EAST OF LEROY...OR 33 MILES EAST OF LANGDON...MOVING
TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  NECHE BY 450 PM CDT...

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

LAT...LON 4892 9780 4883 9756 4898 9737 4898 9779

$$

JCA

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 082159
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
459 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005

NDC067-082209-
/O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-050608T2200Z/
PEMBINA ND-
459 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL PEMBINA COUNTY EXPIRED AT
500 PM CDT...

AT 459 PM CDT...THE TORNADO NEAR NECHE IS MOVING INTO CANADA SO THE 
WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 500 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 4892 9780 4883 9756 4898 9737 4898 9779

$$

JCA

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 7, 11:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Sargent	48 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

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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.