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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2005, 4:20 PM CDT for Marshall County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 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
- Jun 19, 2005, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2005, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Marshall County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 19, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -528 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1414 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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 192120 TORFGF MNC089-192215- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0025.050619T2120Z-050619T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 420 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 418 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF OSLO...OR 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAFTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ARGYLE AT 445 PM OLD MILL STATE PARK AND FLORIAN AT 505 PM 7 MILES SOUTH OF ENGLUND AT 510 PM IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4839 9709 4821 9709 4820 9660 4852 9656 $$ DK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 192139 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 438 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 MNC089-192215- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-050619T2215Z/ MARSHALL MN- 438 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR WESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY... AT 437 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR OSLO...OR 19 MILES NORTH OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OSLO AT 440 PM... ALVARADO AT 450 PM... WARREN AT 510 PM... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4834 9709 4819 9710 4819 9653 4837 9668 $$ DK
000 WWUS53 KFGF 192214 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 513 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 MNC089-192223- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-050619T2215Z/ MARSHALL MN- 513 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY EXPIRED AT 515 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS NO LONGER SEVERE AND THE WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 515 PM CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4834 9709 4819 9710 4819 9653 4837 9668 $$ DK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 55 min |
| Jun 19, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 54 min |
| Jun 19, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 64 min |
| Jun 19, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall | 54 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.