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Tornado Warning 47, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 23, 2005Clearwater County, Polk County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2005, 6:23 PM CDT for Clearwater County, Polk County, Minnesota. It was in force for 67 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, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2005, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clearwater County, MN, Polk County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KFGF 232324
TORFGF
MNC029-119-240030-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0047.050623T2323Z-050624T0030Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CLEARWATER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
  EAST CENTRAL POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 619 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 2 MILES EAST OF FOSSTON...OR 33
  MILES SOUTH OF THIEF RIVER FALLS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  OLGA AND 9 MILES SOUTH OF TRAIL AT 630 PM
  WEME AND 7 MILES SOUTH OF GULLY AT 635 PM
  CLEARBROOK AND GONVICK AT 640 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 4774 9601 4756 9600 4754 9539 4789 9535

$$

DK/JDS

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 232333
SVSFGF

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

MNC029-119-240030-
/O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0047.000000T0000Z-050624T0030Z/
POLK MN-CLEARWATER MN-
633 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR WESTERN
CLEARWATER AND EAST CENTRAL POLK COUNTIES...

AT 632 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES
SOUTH OF WEME...OR 33 MILES WEST OF BEMIDJI...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 
30 MPH. AT 619 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 2 MILES WEST OF 
FOSSTON.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  8 MILES SOUTH OF CLEARBROOK BY 645 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 4774 9601 4756 9600 4754 9539 4789 9535

$$

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, 4:21 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, 6:32 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.