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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2005, 4:21 PM CDT for Marshall County, Minnesota. It was in force for 54 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 23, 2005, 4:21 PM CDT (21:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2005, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Marshall County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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 23, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 259 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 232121 TORFGF MNC089-232215- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0041.050623T2121Z-050623T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 421 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 418 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES WEST OF STEPHEN...OR 18 MILES EAST OF GRAFTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 8 MILES NORTH OF ARGYLE AT 430 PM FLORIAN AND ENGLUND AT 435 PM OLD MILL STATE PARK AT 440 PM STRANDQUIST AT 445 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 4850 9710 4822 9705 4821 9634 4851 9640 $$ DK/JDS
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 232146 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 447 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 MNC089-232215- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0041.000000T0000Z-050623T2215Z/ MARSHALL MN- 447 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR WESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY... AT 444 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES WEST OF FLORIAN...OR 31 MILES EAST OF GRAFTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTH OF OLD MILL STATE PARK BY 500 PM CDT... STRANDQUIST BY 510 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4850 9710 4822 9705 4821 9634 4851 9640 $$ DK/JDS
000 WWUS53 KFGF 232212 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 512 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 MNC089-232222- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0041.000000T0000Z-050623T2215Z/ MARSHALL MN- 512 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY EXPIRED AT 515 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS NO LONGER SEVERE AND THE WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 515 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4850 9710 4822 9705 4821 9634 4851 9640 $$ 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, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.