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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2005, 4:02 PM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report 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, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2005, 5:01 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kittson County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 64 | Humboldt, MN | NDAWN 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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 2973 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 232102 TORFGF MNC069-232200- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0039.050623T2102Z-050623T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 402 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 401 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAMILTON... OR 25 MILES NORTH OF GRAFTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 9 MILES NORTH OF MATTSON AT 405 PM NORTHCOTE...HALLOCK...ORLEANS AND 7 MILES SOUTH OF HUMBOLDT AT 410 PM LANCASTER AT 415 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 4895 9716 4865 9706 4872 9643 4897 9647 $$ DK/JDS
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 232127 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 427 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 MNC069-232200- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-050623T2200Z/ KITTSON MN- 427 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL KITTSON COUNTY... AT 422 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED STRONG ROTATION NORTH OF HALLOCK. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF HALLOCK...OR 33 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAFTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LAKE BRONSON BY 435 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4895 9716 4865 9706 4872 9643 4897 9647 $$ DK/JDS
000 WWUS53 KFGF 232201 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 501 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 MNC069-232211- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-050623T2200Z/ KITTSON MN- 501 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL KITTSON COUNTY EXPIRED AT 500 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS NO LONGER SEVERE AND THE WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 500 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4895 9716 4865 9706 4872 9643 4897 9647 $$ 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, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 53 min |
| Jun 23, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Marshall | 54 min |
| Jun 23, 4:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Kittson | 5 hr |
| Jun 23, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay, Norman | 53 min |
| Jun 23, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington, Red Lake | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 66 min |
| Jun 23, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pennington, Red Lake | 52 min |
| Jun 23, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 52 min |
| Jun 23, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 53 min |
| Jun 23, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Polk | 67 min |
| Jun 23, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 42 min |
| Jun 23, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay | 66 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.