Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 53, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2005, 8:25 PM CDT for Otter Tail County, Minnesota. It was in force for 65 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, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2005, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Otter Tail County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 895 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2294 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 240125 TORFGF MNC111-240230- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0053.050624T0125Z-050624T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 825 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN OTTER TAIL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 823 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 3 MILES WEST OF PERHAM...OR 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PERHAM AT 830 PM BUTLER AT 850 PM HILLVIEW AT 855 PM IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWAY OR A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. 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 4671 9578 4652 9578 4650 9518 4670 9518 $$ JDS/DM
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 240140 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 838 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 MNC111-240230- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-050624T0230Z/ OTTER TAIL MN- 838 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN OTTER TAIL COUNTY... AT 836 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF PERHAM...OR 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 8 MILES NORTH OF NEW YORK MILLS BY 845 PM CDT... BUTLER BY 850 PM CDT... HILLVIEW BY 900 PM CDT... A SECOND STORM HAS DEVELOPED NORTH OF OTTERTAIL LAKE AND WILL CONTINUE TO HEAD EAST APPROACHING THE CITY OF OTTERTAIL BY 850 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4671 9578 4630 9579 4629 9519 4670 9519 $$ JDS/DM
000 WWUS53 KFGF 240226 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 926 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 MNC111-240236- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-050624T0230Z/ OTTER TAIL MN- 926 PM CDT THU JUN 23 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN OTTER TAIL COUNTY EXPIRED AT 930 PM CDT... AT 926 PM CDT...THE TORNADO IN NORTHEASTERN OTTER TAIL COUNTY HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. SO THE WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 930 PM CDT. 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 4671 9578 4630 9579 4629 9519 4670 9519 $$ JDS/DM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 7:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Becker | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wadena | 38 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.