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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2005, 4:37 PM CDT for Otter Tail County, Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 53 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 29, 2005, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Otter Tail County, MN, Wilkin County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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 29, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KFGF 292138
TORFGF
MNC111-167-292230-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0062.050629T2137Z-050629T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
437 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN OTTER TAIL COUNTY
SOUTHERN WILKIN COUNTY
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 436 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 2 MILES NORTH OF CAMPBELL...
OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WAHPETON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
WESTERN AT 455 PM
DALTON AT 520 PM
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A STURDY BUILDING.
A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.
LAT...LON 4621 9657 4604 9650 4605 9632 4612 9628
4613 9589 4628 9594
$$
GUST1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFGF 292213 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 513 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 MNC167-292223- /O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0062.000000T0000Z-050629T2230Z/ WILKIN MN- 513 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WILKIN COUNTY IS CANCELLED... A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4637 9627 4611 9624 4612 9569 4639 9569 $$ MNC111-292230- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0062.000000T0000Z-050629T2230Z/ OTTER TAIL MN- 513 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN OTTER TAIL COUNTY... AT 510 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DALTON...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FERGUS FALLS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. 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 ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4637 9627 4611 9624 4612 9569 4639 9569 $$ GUST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Clay | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 8:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Clay | 12 hr |
| Jun 29, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 9:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 13 hr |
| Jun 29, 9:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 13 hr |
| Jun 29, 10:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Grant | 13 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 56 min |
| Jun 29, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clay | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 43 min |
| Jun 29, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wadena | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Wadena | 31 min |
| Jun 29, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 29 min |
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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.