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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 23, 2005Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2005, 6:32 PM CDT for Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 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, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2005, 7:08 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lake of the Woods County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 227 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KFGF 232332
TORFGF
MNC077-240015-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0048.050623T2332Z-050624T0015Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 628 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PITT...OR 46
  MILES EAST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CLEMENTSON AT 650 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 4872 9488 4837 9490 4837 9445 4871 9444

$$

HOPPES

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 232354
SVSFGF

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

MNC077-240015-
/O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-050624T0015Z/
LAKE OF THE WOODS MN-
654 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAKE
OF THE WOODS COUNTY...

AT 649 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CLEMENTSON...OR 59 MILES EAST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE
EAST AT 45 MPH.

DO NOT OUTRUN A TORNADO IN YOUR CAR. LEAVE YOUR CAR AND GO TO A
STRONG BUILDING OR SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

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 4871 9463 4837 9459 4837 9445 4871 9444

$$

HOPPES

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 240008
SVSFGF

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

MNC077-240018-
/O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-050624T0015Z/
LAKE OF THE WOODS MN-
708 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

AT 708 PM CDT...THE TORNADO IN SOUTHEASTERN LAKE OF THE WOODS 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. A TORNADO WATCH
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTH
CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4871 9463 4837 9459 4837 9445 4871 9444

$$

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, 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, 6:48 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.