Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2006, 1:46 PM CDT for Barnes County, North Dakota. It was in force for 59 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
- Jun 23, 2006, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2006, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Barnes County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 231847 TORFGF NDC003-231945- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0021.060623T1846Z-060623T1945Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 146 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 144 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR MARION...OR 28 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LITCHVILLE AT 210 PM CDT HASTINGS AT 230 PM CDT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF KATHRYN AT 245 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4659 9849 4647 9837 4674 9779 4694 9800 $$ TG
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 231907 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 206 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2006 NDC003-231945- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060623T1945Z/ BARNES ND- 206 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTY... AT 205 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF LITCHVILLE...OR 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VALLEY CITY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HASTINGS BY 220 PM CDT KATHRYN BY 230 PM CDT 6 MILES WEST OF FINGAL BY 245 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4659 9849 4647 9837 4674 9779 4694 9800 $$ TG/JA
000 WWUS53 KFGF 231940 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 240 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2006 NDC003-231950- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060623T1945Z/ BARNES ND- 240 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 245 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS NO LONGER SEVERE AND SO THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 245 PM CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4659 9849 4647 9837 4674 9779 4694 9800 $$ TG/JA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Towner | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 53 min |
| Jun 23, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass | 61 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.