Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2007, 3:12 AM CDT for Barnes County, Cass County, North Dakota. It was in force for 63 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
- Jun 17, 2007, 3:12 AM CDT (08:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2007, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 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 17, 3:25 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Nw Fingal, ND | |
| Jun 17, 4:15 AM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 5 E Fingal, ND | HAIL PERSISTED THROUGH 420 AM. |
| Jun 17, 4:15 AM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 6 W Alice, ND | HAIL PERSISTED THROUGH 420 AM. |
| Jun 17, 4:17 AM CDT | HAIL 1 | Fingal, ND |
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 16, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:09 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 170811 TORFGF NDC003-017-170915- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0013.070617T0812Z-070617T0915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 312 AM CDT SUN JUN 17 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... CENTRAL CASS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... * UNTIL 415 AM CDT * AT 310 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF FINGAL...OR 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VALLEY CITY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ALICE AT 335 AM CDT... BUFFALO AT 345 AM CDT... EMBDEN AT 350 AM CDT... 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHAFFEE AT 355 AM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4680 9802 4665 9790 4683 9708 4704 9739 $$ DK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 170847 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 347 AM CDT SUN JUN 17 2007 NDC003-017-170915- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070617T0915Z/ BARNES ND-CASS ND- 347 AM CDT SUN JUN 17 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 AM CDT FOR CENTRAL CASS AND CENTRAL BARNES COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... AT 344 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BUFFALO...OR 21 MILES EAST OF VALLEY CITY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ABSARAKA AND 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHEATLAND BY 400 AM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4685 9824 4668 9825 4685 9712 4704 9737 $$ DK
000 WWUS53 KFGF 170906 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 405 AM CDT SUN JUN 17 2007 NDC003-017-170915- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070617T0915Z/ BARNES ND-CASS ND- 405 AM CDT SUN JUN 17 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 AM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN CASS AND SOUTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... AT 401 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF KATHRYN...OR 13 MILES SOUTH OF VALLEY CITY...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NOME BY 410 AM CDT... FINGAL AND LUCCA BY 415 AM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4699 9814 4665 9823 4667 9726 4701 9738 $$ HOPPES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 66 min |
| Jun 17, 2:37 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Grand Forks, Ransom, Richland, Sargent and 2 more | 13 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 3:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Barnes | 9 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 54 min |
| Jun 17, 4:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Ransom | 59 min |
| Jun 17, 3:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 13 hr |
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.