Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 46, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2005, 5:57 PM CDT for Pennington County, Red Lake County, Minnesota. It was in force for 52 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, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2005, 6:49 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pennington County, MN, Red Lake County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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 232257 TORFGF MNC113-125-240000- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0046.050623T2257Z-050624T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 557 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PENNINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA RED LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 553 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR RED LAKE FALLS...OR 17 MILES SOUTH OF THIEF RIVER FALLS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TERREBONNE AT 605 PM PLUMMER AT 615 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 4792 9640 4779 9626 4790 9581 4816 9596 $$ DK/JDS
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 232307 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 607 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 MNC113-125-240000- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0046.000000T0000Z-050624T0000Z/ PENNINGTON MN-RED LAKE MN- 607 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR RED LAKE AND CENTRAL PENNINGTON COUNTIES... AT 602 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF PLUMMER...OR 13 MILES SOUTH OF THIEF RIVER FALLS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PLUMMER BY 610 PM CDT... RURAL SOUTHERN PENNINGTON COUNTY AT 620 PM CDT RURAL NORTHEASTERN RED LAKE COUNTY AT 620 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4792 9640 4779 9626 4790 9581 4816 9596 $$ DK/JDS
000 WWUS53 KFGF 232349 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 649 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 MNC113-125-232359- /O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0046.000000T0000Z-050624T0000Z/ PENNINGTON MN-RED LAKE MN- 649 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR RED LAKE AND CENTRAL PENNINGTON COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... AT 649 PM CDT...THE TORNADO HAS MOVED OUT OF CENTRAL PENNINGTON AND RED LAKE COUNTIES. 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. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4792 9640 4779 9626 4790 9581 4816 9596 $$ DK/JS
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, 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, 5:59 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 |
Nearby
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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.