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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 2006, 6:47 PM CDT for Polk County, Minnesota. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 27, 2006, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Polk County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 7:09 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Se Gentilly, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 1526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 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 272347
TORFGF
MNC119-280045-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0028.060727T2347Z-060728T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
647 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 642 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 3 MILES NORTH OF GENTILLY...OR 23
MILES SOUTHWEST OF THIEF RIVER FALLS...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT
15 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
GENTILLY AT 700 PM CDT
DUGDALE AT 725 PM CDT
MELVIN AT 735 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 1100 PM CDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4784 9637 4784 9657 4758 9641 4759 9624
4776 9626 4775 9636
$$
DK1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KFGF 272358
SVSFGF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
657 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2006
MNC119-280045-
/O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-060728T0045Z/
POLK MN-
657 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2006
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
POLK COUNTY...
AT 655 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES
WEST OF PERAULT...OR 24 MILES SOUTH OF THIEF RIVER FALLS...MOVING TO
THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
A SPOTTER REPORTED A WALL CLOUD AND A FUNNEL CLOUD 14 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MENTOR NEAR THE POLK AND RED LAKE COUNTY LINE AT 654 PM
CDT.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
DUGDALE BY 720 PM CDT
8 MILES NORTHEAST OF MELVIN BY 725 PM CDT
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A STURDY BUILDING.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4784 9637 4784 9657 4758 9641 4759 9624
4776 9626 4775 9636
$$
DKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 67 min |
| Jul 27, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall | 56 min |
| Jul 27, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 58 min |
| Jul 27, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington, Red Lake | 57 min |
| Jul 27, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pennington, Red Lake | 52 min |
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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.