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Tornado Warning 69, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2005, 10:37 PM CDT for Kittson 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
- Jul 2, 2005, 10:37 PM CDT (03:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2005, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kittson County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 1756 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 030337 TORFGF MNC069-030430- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0069.050703T0337Z-050703T0430Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1037 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1032 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF LANCASTER... OR 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAFTON. THIS TORNADO WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ORLEANS AT 1050 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. LAT...LON 4885 9707 4876 9680 4899 9653 4900 9706 $$ HOPPES
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 030402 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1101 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2005 MNC069-030430- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0069.000000T0000Z-050703T0430Z/ KITTSON MN- 1101 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN KITTSON COUNTY... AT 1059 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF LANCASTER...OR 41 MILES WEST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 5 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHERN KITTSON COUNTY AT 1120 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4883 9689 4876 9646 4899 9641 4899 9687 $$ HOPPES
000 WWUS53 KFGF 030418 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1118 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2005 MNC069-030430- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0069.000000T0000Z-050703T0430Z/ KITTSON MN- 1118 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN KITTSON COUNTY... AT 1110 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUMBOLDT...OR 33 MILES NORTH OF GRAFTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HALLOCK AND ORLEANS BY 1120 PM CDT... LANCASTER BY 1130 PM CDT... ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF LANCASTER. MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN THE BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWAY. LAT...LON 4870 9715 4873 9642 4899 9641 4899 9719 $$ HOPPES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 7:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Kittson | 12 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 58 min |
| Jul 2, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 57 min |
| Jul 2, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 59 min |
| Jul 3, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 3:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Polk | 35 min |
| Jul 3, 3:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Polk | 4 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington, Red Lake | 41 min |
| Jul 3, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 27 min |
| Jul 3, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 62 min |
| Jul 3, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 28 min |
| Jul 3, 4:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 53 min |
| Jul 3, 5:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 57 min |
| Jul 3, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Roseau | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 40 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.