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Tornado Warning 71, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2005, 3:12 PM CDT for Roseau County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2005, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2005, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Roseau County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:35 PM CDT | TORNADO 1 | 5 Nw Haug, MN | TORNADO TRACKED FOR ABOUT 2 MILES TO 5 NNW HAUG BY 340 PM. NUMEROUS LARGE TREES WERE SNAPPED OFF OR UPROOTED FOR ABOUT ONE MILE BACK FROM CLEARING IN WILDLIFE AREA. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1280 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 032012 TORFGF MNC135-032115- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0071.050703T2012Z-050703T2115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 312 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ROSEAU COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 306 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 3 MILES EAST OF CARIBOU...OR 30 MILES WEST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PINECREEK AT 350 PM ROSS AT 355 PM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALOL AT 415 PM IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4899 9639 4884 9639 4885 9544 4900 9542 $$ JCA
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 032043 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 343 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005 MNC135-032115- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0071.000000T0000Z-050703T2115Z/ ROSEAU MN- 343 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN ROSEAU COUNTY... AT 339 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF PINECREEK...OR 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PINECREEK AND 6 MILES NORTH OF ROSS BY 355 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4899 9639 4884 9639 4885 9544 4900 9542 $$ JCA
000 WWUS53 KFGF 032111 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 411 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005 MNC135-032121- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0071.000000T0000Z-050703T2115Z/ ROSEAU MN- 411 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN ROSEAU COUNTY EXPIRED AT 415 PM CDT... AT 411 PM CDT...THE TORNADO IN NORTHERN ROSEAU COUNTY HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. SO THE WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 415 PM CDT. LAT...LON 4899 9639 4884 9639 4885 9544 4900 9542 $$ JCA
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, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 53 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, 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.