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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND

May 5, 2005Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2005, 3:25 PM CDT for Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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: May 5, 2005, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2005, 4:11 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lake of the Woods County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 235 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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.

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -189 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KFGF 052026
TORFGF
MNC077-052130-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0003.050505T2025Z-050505T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
325 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 322 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR CARP...OR 56 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN CARP 320 PM.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY AT 340 PM

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

LAT...LON 4857 9506 4839 9502 4845 9377 4871 9383

$$
DK

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 052043
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
342 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005

MNC077-052130-
/O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050505T2130Z/
LAKE OF THE WOODS MN-
342 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAKE
OF THE WOODS COUNTY...

AT 339 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
EAST OF CARP...OR 63 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST
AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  THE TORNADO WILL BE SOUTH OF COUNTY ROUTE 1 AND STATE HIGHWAY 72 
AROUND 345 PM CDT.

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

LAT...LON 4857 9506 4839 9503 4838 9444 4862 9445

$$
DK

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 052111
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
410 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005

MNC077-052120-
/O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050505T2130Z/
LAKE OF THE WOODS MN-
410 PM CDT THU MAY 5 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

AT 410 PM CDT...THE RADAR INDICATED TORNADO IN SOUTHEASTERN LAKE OF THE 
WOODS COUNTY HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. SO THE WARNING HAS BEEN 
CANCELLED. 

LAT...LON 4857 9506 4839 9503 4838 9444 4862 9445

$$
DK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods	43 min
May 5, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods	46 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.