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Tornado Watch 513

June 23, 200513 counties in Minnesota; 13 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 23, 2005, 2:25 PM CDT for 13 counties in Minnesota; 13 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2005, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 26 counties

Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 2:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Ramsey	53 min
Jun 23, 2:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Cavalier, Pembina, Walsh	62 min
Jun 23, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Benson, Eddy, Nelson	60 min
Jun 23, 3:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Cavalier, Ramsey	62 min
Jun 23, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grand Forks, Griggs, Steele	56 min
Jun 23, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson	53 min
Jun 23, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Nelson	48 min
Jun 23, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Cavalier, Pembina, Walsh	60 min
Jun 23, 4:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Kittson	59 min
Jun 23, 4:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Griggs, Steele	66 min
Jun 23, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Marshall	54 min
Jun 23, 4:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Kittson	5 hr
Jun 23, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Cass, Traill	65 min
Jun 23, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Polk	60 min
Jun 23, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Steele	11 min
Jun 23, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay, Norman	53 min
Jun 23, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Pennington, Red Lake	55 min
Jun 23, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods, Roseau	66 min
Jun 23, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Pennington, Red Lake	52 min
Jun 23, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Norman, Polk	52 min
Jun 23, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	53 min
Jun 23, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Clearwater, Polk	67 min
Jun 23, 6:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Beltrami	42 min
Jun 23, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Becker, Clay	66 min
Jun 23, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater	62 min
Jun 23, 7:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Becker	6 hr
Jun 23, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Becker	63 min
Jun 23, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Hubbard	45 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 2973 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 400 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 384 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 13.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 2:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Roseau	62 min
Jun 23, 6:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard and 11 more	64 min
Jun 23, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching and 3 more	7 hr
Jun 22, 8:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Billings, Burke, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley, McKenzie and 8 more	62 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.