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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 5, 2006Grant County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2006, 5:06 PM CDT for Grant County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 5, 2006, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2006, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Grant County, MN

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 198 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 5:30 PM CDT	TORNADO 1	8 Wsw Hoffman, MN	TORNADO TRACKED EASTWARD FOR ABOUT 1.5 MILES THROUGH CENTRAL ROSEVILLE TOWNSHIP UNTIL 534 PM. SEVERAL LARGE TREES WERE TORN UP IN THE CORNER OF A SHELTER BELT. A TALL STEEL SILO WAS DENTED IN NEAR THE TOP AND THE SILO CAP WAS TORN OFF. TORNADO WAS BRIEFLY VISI
Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	3 Sw Hoffman, MN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 5, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -20 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 052206
TORFGF
MNC051-052245-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0010.060605T2206Z-060605T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
506 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 503 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BARRETT...OR
  20 MILES NORTH OF MORRIS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HOFFMAN BY 520 PM CDT

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 700 PM CDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4599 9607 4578 9604 4578 9577 4600 9578

$$

TFGF

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 052220
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
520 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

MNC051-052245-
/O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-060605T2245Z/
GRANT MN-
520 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
GRANT COUNTY...

AT 516 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BARRETT...OR 19 MILES NORTH OF MORRIS...MOVING TO THE
EAST AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HOFFMAN BY 535 PM CDT

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 700 PM CDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4599 9607 4578 9604 4578 9577 4600 9578

$$

TFGF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	67 min
Jun 5, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wilkin	63 min
Jun 5, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay	62 min
Jun 5, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wilkin	62 min
Jun 5, 3:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	66 min
Jun 5, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Becker, Clay	61 min
Jun 5, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Norman	56 min
Jun 5, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grant	51 min
Jun 5, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	34 min
Jun 5, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grant	61 min
Jun 5, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Polk, Red Lake	55 min
Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	55 min
Jun 5, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clearwater	64 min
Jun 5, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Grant	18 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.