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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 23, 2005Beltrami County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2005, 6:48 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Minnesota. It was in force for 42 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, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2005, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Beltrami County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 232348
TORFGF
MNC007-240030-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0049.050623T2348Z-050624T0030Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BELTRAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 645 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 3 MILES EAST OF THORHULT...OR 46
  MILES EAST OF THIEF RIVER FALLS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 65 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHERN BELTRAMI COUNTY AT 700 PM
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN BELTRAMI COUNTY AT 710 PM

IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE THEN SEEK SHELTER IN AN INNERMOST
ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS AND
PROTECT YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS.

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 4831 9533 4791 9522 4794 9443 4836 9444
      4836 9512

$$

HOPPES

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 240012
SVSFGF

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

MNC007-240030-
/O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0049.000000T0000Z-050624T0030Z/
BELTRAMI MN-
712 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL
BELTRAMI COUNTY...

AT 710 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 2 MILES
WEST OF SAUM...OR 35 MILES NORTH OF BEMIDJI...MOVING TO THE EAST AT
65 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  KELLIHER BY 720 PM CDT...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
PENNY SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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 4836 9496 4817 9480 4770 9494 4768 9446
      4836 9445

$$

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, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods	36 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.