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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 5, 2006Otter Tail County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2006, 4:11 PM CDT for Otter Tail County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 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: Jun 5, 2006, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2006, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Otter Tail County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 203 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Jun 5, 4:40 PM CDT	TORNADO 1	12 E Henning, MN	TORNADO TRACKED FOR ABOUT ONE MILE IN EASTERN OAK VALLEY TOWNSHIP TO ABOUT 13E HENNING BY 442 PM. NUMEROUS 8 TO 10 INCH TREE LIMBS WERE SNAPPED OR TWISTED OFF ALONG THE PATH NEAR HIGHWAY 210. PEAK WIND SPEEDS ESTIMATED AT 80 MILES AN HOUR.

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
Jun 5, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 210 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KFGF 052112
TORFGF
MNC111-052215-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0009.060605T2111Z-060605T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
411 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN OTTER TAIL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 407 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
URBANK...OR   22 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA...MOVING TO THE EAST 
AT 25 MPH. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO MAY BE RAIN WRAPPED.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ALMORA...PARKERS PRAIRIE AND 9 MILES SOUTH OF HENNING BY 430 PM CDT
  WRIGHTSTOWN BY 450 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 700 PM CDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4627 9561 4612 9556 4612 9516 4643 9520

$$

TFGF

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 052132
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
432 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

MNC111-052215-
/O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-060605T2215Z/
OTTER TAIL MN-
432 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN OTTER TAIL COUNTY...

AT 429 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
SOUTH OF WRIGHTSTOWN...OR 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LONG PRAIRIE...MOVING
TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH.

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 700 PM CDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4626 9542 4613 9539 4612 9516 4630 9517

$$

TFGF

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 052145
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
445 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

MNC111-052155-
/O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-060605T2215Z/
OTTER TAIL MN-
445 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN OTTER TAIL COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

AT 445 PM CDT...TORNADO MOVED OUT OF SOUTHEASTERN OTTER TAIL COUNTY.
SO THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4626 9542 4613 9539 4612 9516 4630 9517

$$

TFGF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	67 min
Jun 5, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wilkin	63 min
Jun 5, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay	62 min
Jun 5, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wilkin	62 min
Jun 5, 3:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Otter Tail	66 min
Jun 5, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Becker, Clay	61 min
Jun 5, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Norman	56 min
Jun 5, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grant	51 min
Jun 5, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grant	61 min
Jun 5, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Polk, Red Lake	55 min
Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	55 min
Jun 5, 5:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Grant	39 min
Jun 5, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clearwater	64 min
Jun 5, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Grant	18 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.