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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 2006, 8:00 PM CDT for Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 5, 2006, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2006, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lake of the Woods County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 215 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1048 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 060059 TORFGF MNC077-060145- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0035.060806T0100Z-060806T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 800 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 758 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAUNCE...OR 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... FAUNCE AT 805 PM CDT GRACETON AT 815 PM CDT PITT AT 825 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 4870 9521 4853 9516 4858 9446 4875 9477 $$ GV
2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KFGF 060125
SVSFGF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
824 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2006
MNC087-107-060200-
/O.CON.KFGF.SV.W.0141.000000T0000Z-060806T0200Z/
NORMAN MN-MAHNOMEN MN-
824 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2006
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT
FOR NORTHERN MAHNOMEN AND EASTERN NORMAN COUNTIES...
AT 822 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THE STORM
WAS LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TWIN VALLEY...OR 35 MILES NORTHEAST
OF FARGO...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. AT 820 PM CDT SPOTTERS
REPORTED PENNY SIZE HAIL AND LARGE TREES DOWN SOUTHEAST OF BORUP.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
FAITH AND WAUKON BY 835 PM CDT
MAHNOMEN BY 840 PM CDT
BEAULIEU BY 855 PM CDT
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA.
LAT...LON 4716 9670 4715 9628 4735 9557 4750 9557
4743 9607
$$
HOPPES000 WWUS53 KFGF 060144 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 844 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2006 MNC077-060154- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-060806T0145Z/ LAKE OF THE WOODS MN- 844 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY EXPIRES AT 845 PM CDT... AT 841 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF FAUNCE...OR 44 MILES EAST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND WAS NO LONGER CONSIDERED SEVERE. SO THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 845 PM CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4870 9521 4853 9516 4858 9446 4875 9477 $$ GV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Marshall | 43 min |
| Aug 5, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 43 min |
| Aug 5, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman | 56 min |
| Aug 5, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 28 min |
| Aug 5, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 17 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.