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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2007, 12:21 PM CDT for Roseau County, Minnesota. It was in force for 54 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 25, 2007, 12:21 PM CDT (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2007, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 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), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 12:44 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 6 N Badger, MN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 860 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1114 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 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 251722 TORFGF MNC135-251815- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0021.070625T1721Z-070625T1815Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 1221 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN ROSEAU COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 115 PM CDT * AT 1220 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF HAUG...OR 26 MILES WEST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NORTH OF HAUG AT 1235 PM CDT... ROSS AND FOX AT 1250 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWAY OR A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. LAT...LON 4894 9641 4883 9640 4881 9588 4897 9588 $$ GUST
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 251744 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 1244 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2007 MNC135-251815- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070625T1815Z/ ROSEAU MN- 1244 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN ROSEAU COUNTY... AT 1241 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BADGER...OR 14 MILES WEST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... FOX OR ROSS BY 1250 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWAY OR A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. LAT...LON 4894 9637 4881 9634 4879 9587 4897 9585 $$ GUST
000 WWUS53 KFGF 251804 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 104 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2007 MNC135-251815- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070625T1815Z/ ROSEAU MN- 104 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL ROSEAU COUNTY... AT 102 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SALOL BY 110 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWAY OR A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. LAT...LON 4895 9596 4883 9594 4883 9554 4897 9555 $$ GUST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Roseau | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Roseau | 51 min |
| Jun 24, 9:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 54 min |
| Jun 25, 12:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 49 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.