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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2005, 4:50 PM CDT for Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 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, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2005, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lake of the Woods County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 232150 TORFGF MNC077-232245- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0042.050623T2150Z-050623T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 450 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 448 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES SOUTH OF ANGLE INLET... OR 36 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OAK ISLAND AND 7 MILES SOUTH OF FLAG ISLAND AT 505 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 4937 9513 4908 9515 4913 9479 4934 9481 $$ HOPPES
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 232209 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 509 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 MNC077-232245- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0042.000000T0000Z-050623T2245Z/ LAKE OF THE WOODS MN- 509 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY... AT 506 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OAK ISLAND...OR 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWAY OR A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4937 9513 4908 9515 4913 9479 4934 9481 $$ HOPPES
000 WWUS53 KFGF 232242 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 541 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 MNC077-232251- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0042.000000T0000Z-050623T2245Z/ LAKE OF THE WOODS MN- 541 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY EXPIRES AT 545 PM CDT... AT 541 PM CDT...THE TORNADO IN NORTH CENTRAL LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. SO THE WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 545 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4937 9513 4908 9515 4913 9479 4934 9481 $$ HOPPES
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, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Marshall | 54 min |
| Jun 23, 4:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Kittson | 5 hr |
| 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.