Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2006, 7:08 PM CDT for Grand Forks County, North Dakota. It was in force for 67 min. 6 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, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Grand Forks County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:11 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 3 N Niagara, ND | |
| Jun 5, 7:15 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 5 E Niagara, ND | HAIL FELL FOR ABOUT 8 MINUTES UNTIL 723PM. |
| Jun 5, 7:15 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 5 E Niagara, ND | HAIL FELL FOR ABOUT 8 MINUTES UNTIL 823PM. |
| Jun 5, 7:50 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 W Emerado, ND | PERSISTENT WALL CLOUD WITH FUNNEL VIEWED FROM JUST WEST OF EMERADO. |
| Jun 5, 7:51 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 6 Nw Arvilla, ND | |
| Jun 5, 8:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Grand Forks Afb, ND | GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE WEATHER OBSERVER REPORTS ONE INCH HAIL AT THE BASE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2400 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 060009 TORFGF NDC035-060115- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0017.060606T0008Z-060606T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 709 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL GRAND FORKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 704 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 2 MILES SOUTH OF NIAGARA...OR 37 MILES WEST OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED A WALL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MCCANNA BY 715 PM CDT ARVILLA BY 730 PM CDT HONEYFORD BY 735 PM CDT GRAND FORKS AFB...MEKINOCK AND EMERADO BY 740 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4808 9788 4788 9785 4787 9725 4809 9725 $$ DK/BB
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFGF 060023 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 723 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 NDC035-060115- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-060606T0115Z/ GRAND FORKS ND- 723 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL GRAND FORKS COUNTY... AT 717 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCCANNA...OR 31 MILES WEST OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. SPOTTERS CONTINUE TO REPORT A ROTATING WALL CLOUD WITH THIS DANGEROUS STORM. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LARIMORE BY 730 PM CDT ARVILLA BY 740 PM CDT GRAND FORKS AFB BY 750 PM CDT EMERADO AND MEKINOCK BY 755 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4808 9788 4788 9785 4787 9725 4809 9725 $$ DK/BB
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 | Sargent | 54 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.