Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2005, 6:36 PM CDT for Traill County, North Dakota. It was in force for 39 min. 2 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 11, 2005, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Traill County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 11, 6:48 PM CDT | TORNADO | 11 Ne Hillsboro, ND | BRIEF TOUCHDOWN IN OPEN FIELD |
| Jun 11, 6:52 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 W Caledonia, ND | BRIEF TOUCHDOWN IN OPEN FIELD |
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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1339 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 112337 TORFGF NDC097-120015- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0018.050611T2336Z-050612T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 636 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN TRAILL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 632 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR HILLSBORO...OR 34 MILES SOUTH OF GRAND FORKS. THIS TORNADO WAS SLOWLY MOVING NORTH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CUMMINGS AT 715 PM PUBLIC HAS REPORTED NUMEROUS FUNNEL CLOUDS WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4753 9689 4756 9718 4726 9727 4726 9688 $$ TG
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFGF 112355 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 653 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 NDC097-120015- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-050612T0015Z/ TRAILL ND- 653 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN TRAILL COUNTY... AT 647 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF CALEDONIA...OR 31 MILES SOUTH OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NORTHWEST OF CALEDONIA THROUGH 700 PM CDT... EAST OF CUMMINGS BY 705 PM CDT... 7 MILES SOUTH OF BUXTON BY 715 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4766 9690 4766 9728 4726 9727 4726 9688 $$ TG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 1:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Richland | 12 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Cass, Ransom, Sargent | 11 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Eddy | 12 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 12 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Traill | 12 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Ramsey | 12 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass | 47 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.