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Tornado Warning 64, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 29, 2005Wadena County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2005, 6:27 PM CDT for Wadena County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 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, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2005, 6:58 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wadena County, MN

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 212 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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 29, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -355 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KFGF 292328
TORFGF
MNC159-300030-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0064.050629T2327Z-050630T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
627 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN WADENA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 623 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR 
VERNDALE...OR 52 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVING TO THE 
NORTHEAST AT 35 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 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4657 9504 4637 9501 4638 9480 4658 9480

$$

GUST

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 292342
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
642 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005

MNC159-300030-
/O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0064.000000T0000Z-050630T0030Z/
WADENA MN-
642 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
WADENA COUNTY...

AT 640 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF OYLEN...OR 51 MILES EAST OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVING TO
THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

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 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4664 9502 4637 9501 4638 9480 4663 9480

$$

GUST

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 292358
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
658 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005

MNC159-300008-
/O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0064.000000T0000Z-050630T0030Z/
WADENA MN-
658 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WADENA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

AT 658 PM CDT...THE TORNADO IN SOUTHEASTERN WADENA COUNTY HAS MOVED 
OUT OF THE COUNTY. SO THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4664 9502 4637 9501 4638 9480 4663 9480

$$

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, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wilkin	53 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, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	29 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.