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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2005, 4:35 PM CDT for Polk 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, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Polk County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 270 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 192135 TORFGF MNC119-192230- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0026.050619T2135Z-050619T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 435 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 431 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OSLO...OR 18 MILES NORTH OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTH OF TABOR AT 510 PM ANGUS AT 525 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 4816 9710 4805 9705 4806 9661 4816 9661 $$ DK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 192156 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 454 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 MNC119-192230- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-050619T2230Z/ POLK MN- 454 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN POLK COUNTY... AT 452 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR THE POLK COUNTY AND MARSHALL COUNTY LINE SOUTH OF OSLO...OR 18 MILES NORTH OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES NORTH OF TABOR BY 510 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4816 9712 4806 9707 4806 9675 4816 9674 $$ DK
000 WWUS53 KFGF 192229 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 529 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 MNC119-192239- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-050619T2230Z/ POLK MN- 529 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN POLK COUNTY EXPIRED AT 530 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS NO LONGER SEVERE AND THE WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 530 PM CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4816 9712 4806 9707 4806 9675 4816 9674 $$ 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, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Marshall | 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.