Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2006, 7:08 PM CDT for Sargent County, North Dakota. It was in force for 54 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, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2006, 8:02 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sargent County, ND
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:35 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 5 N Cayuga, ND | PERSISTENT WALL CLOUS WITH BRIEF FUNEL VIEWED FROM NEAR CAYUGA. |
| Jun 5, 7:40 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 4 W Hamlin, ND |
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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 060008 TORFGF NDC081-060115- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0016.060606T0008Z-060606T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 708 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN SARGENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 704 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR GWINNER...OR 32 MILES NORTH OF BRITTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MILNOR BY 720 PM CDT DE LAMERE BY 730 PM CDT HAMLIN BY 740 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4627 9772 4614 9770 4610 9727 4627 9728 $$ TFGF
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 060034 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 734 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 NDC081-060115- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-060606T0115Z/ SARGENT ND- 734 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN SARGENT COUNTY... AT 730 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF MILNOR...OR 31 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRITTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES SOUTH OF DE LAMERE BY 740 PM CDT HAMLIN BY 745 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4626 9751 4613 9751 4610 9727 4627 9728 $$ TFGF
000 WWUS53 KFGF 060102 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 803 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 NDC081-060113- /O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-060606T0115Z/ SARGENT ND- 803 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN SARGENT COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 803 PM CDT...TORNADO MOVED OUT OF NORTHEASTERN SARGENT COUNTY. SO THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4626 9751 4613 9751 4610 9727 4627 9728 $$ TFGF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Ransom | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Steele, Traill | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Richland | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Richland | 32 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.