Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2005, 6:20 PM CDT for Grand Forks County, North Dakota. It was in force for 40 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, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Grand Forks County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 192320 TORFGF NDC035-200000- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0027.050619T2320Z-050620T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 620 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL GRAND FORKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GRAND FORKS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 618 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 4 MILES EAST OF MEKINOCK...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN SITED JUST NORTH OF THE CITY OF GRAND FORKS AT 615 PM. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MANVEL AT 635 PM 8 MILES NORTH OF GRAND FORKS AT 640 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 4807 9743 4789 9737 4788 9704 4814 9716 $$ DK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 192335 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 634 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 NDC035-200000- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-050620T0000Z/ GRAND FORKS ND- 634 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL GRAND FORKS COUNTY... AT 630 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF MANVEL...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES NORTH OF GRAND FORKS BY 645 PM CDT... AT THIS POINT THE TORNADO SHOULD REMAIN NORTH OF THE CITY OF GRAND FORKS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4807 9743 4789 9737 4788 9704 4814 9716 $$ DK
000 WWUS53 KFGF 192358 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 657 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 NDC035-200007- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-050620T0000Z/ GRAND FORKS ND- 657 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL GRAND FORKS COUNTY EXPIRED AT 700 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS NO LONGER SEVERE AND THE WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 700 PM CDT. THE STORM MOVED INTO POLK COUNTY AND IS NOW NO LONGER A THREAT TO GRAND FORKS COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4807 9743 4789 9737 4788 9704 4814 9716 $$ DK/WJB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 4:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 4:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Benson | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 5:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ramsey | 54 min |
| Jun 19, 5:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Towner | 58 min |
| Jun 19, 5:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 53 min |
| Jun 19, 5:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Walsh | 23 min |
| Jun 19, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ramsey | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 6:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Walsh | 24 min |
| Jun 19, 6:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pembina | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pembina | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Walsh | 67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.