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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 2006, 6:44 PM CDT for Roseau County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 min. 4 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
- Aug 5, 2006, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2006, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Roseau County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 204 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 6:45 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 5 Ne Salol, MN | |
| Aug 5, 6:45 PM CDT | TORNADO | 10 Wnw Warroad, MN | MULTIPLE FUNNELS ASSOCIATED WITH STORM. |
| Aug 5, 6:58 PM CDT | HAIL 4 | 2 Wnw Warroad, MN | HAIL UP TO 4 INCHES IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED. |
| Aug 5, 7:02 PM CDT | TORNADO 3 | 1 Wnw Warroad, MN | TORNADO NUMBER 2 OF A SERIES TRACKED EAST BY SOUTHEAST FOR NEARLY 3 MILES ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF WARROAD. THE MAIN TORNADO APPEARED TO HAVE TOUCHED DOWN ABOUT A MILE WEST OF THE MARVIN WINDOWS PLANT COMPLEX AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF WARROAD. THE TORNADO |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1202 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 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 052344 TORFGF MNC135-060015- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0031.060805T2344Z-060806T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 644 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN ROSEAU COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 640 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF SALOL...OR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WARROAD AT 705 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 900 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4897 9571 4885 9568 4886 9531 4899 9534 $$ GV
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFGF 060019 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 719 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2006 MNC135-060029- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-060806T0015Z/ ROSEAU MN- 719 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN ROSEAU COUNTY EXPIRES AT 715 PM CDT... AT 719 PM CDT...THE TORNADO HAS MOVED OUT OF NORTHEASTERN ROSEAU COUNTY. SO THE WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 715 PM CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4897 9571 4885 9568 4886 9531 4899 9534 $$ GV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 45 min |
| Aug 5, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Roseau | 38 min |
| Aug 5, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk, Red Lake | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Roseau | 46 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.