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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 23, 2005Steele County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2005, 5:15 PM CDT for Steele County, North Dakota. It was in force for 11 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, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2005, 5:26 PM CDT
In force: 11 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Steele County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 246 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KFGF 232215
TORFGF
NDC091-232245-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0045.050623T2215Z-050623T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
515 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 510 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES WEST OF CLIFFORD...OR 36
  MILES NORTHEAST OF VALLEY CITY...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

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 4740 9750 4735 9769 4727 9766 4727 9748

$$

DK/JDS

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 232226
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
527 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005

NDC091-232237-
/O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0045.000000T0000Z-050623T2245Z/
STEELE ND-
527 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN STEELE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

AT 527 PM CDT...THE TORNADO IN SOUTHEASTERN STEELE COUNTY HAS MOVED
OUT OF THE COUNTY. SO THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4740 9750 4735 9769 4727 9766 4727 9748

$$

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, 2:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Ramsey	53 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, 5:59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.