Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 74, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT for Benson County, North Dakota. It was in force for 28 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 10, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2005, 7:43 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Benson County, ND
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 10, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 4621 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1484 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 22.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 110015 TORFGF NDC005-110115- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0074.050711T0015Z-050711T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 715 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN BENSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 711 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ESMOND...OR 38 MILES WEST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADDOCK AT 735 PM 7 MILES SOUTH OF BAKER AND 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARLOW AT 815 PM IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4792 9979 4791 9952 4820 9930 4829 9971 $$ JA/DM
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFGF 110043 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 743 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005 NDC005-110053- /O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0074.000000T0000Z-050711T0115Z/ BENSON ND- 743 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN BENSON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 743 PM CDT...THE TORNADO IN WESTERN BENSON COUNTY HAS DISSIPATED. SO THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4792 9979 4791 9952 4820 9930 4829 9971 $$ JCA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Towner | 23 min |
| Jul 10, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson | 61 min |
| Jul 10, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Benson | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 9:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Ramsey, Towner | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Towner | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 67 min |
| Jul 10, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Towner | 64 min |
| Jul 11, 5:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Walsh | 11 hr |
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.