Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2005, 2:37 PM CDT for Ramsey County, North Dakota. It was in force for 53 min. 3 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 23, 2005, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2005, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ramsey County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 85 | Devils Lake, ND | |
| Jun 23, 2:44 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 58 | 2 S Devils Lake, ND | |
| Jun 23, 2:44 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 58 | 2 S Devils Lake, ND | RWIS SITE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 23, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 1519 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 231937 TORFGF NDC071-232030- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0033.050623T1937Z-050623T2030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 237 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL RAMSEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DEVILS LAKE * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 232 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES SOUTH OF PENN...OR 8 MILES WEST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WEBSTER AT 245 PM IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4820 9917 4804 9896 4819 9848 4846 9867 $$ DK/JDS
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFGF 231944 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 244 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 NDC071-232030- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-050623T2030Z/ RAMSEY ND- 244 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR RAMSEY COUNTY... AT 241 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TORNADO COULD BE RAIN WRAPPED AND HARD TO SEE. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WEBSTER BY 255 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4820 9917 4803 9894 4819 9848 4846 9867 $$ DK/JDS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Ramsey | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Benson, Eddy | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Pembina, Walsh | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Benson, Eddy, Nelson | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Towner | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Towner | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Ramsey | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Griggs, Steele | 56 min |
| Jun 23, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Pembina, Walsh | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Griggs, Steele | 66 min |
| Jun 23, 4:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Pembina | 5 hr |
| Jun 23, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass, Traill | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Steele | 11 min |
| Jun 23, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Traill | 52 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.