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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2007, 12:41 PM CDT for Kittson County, Roseau County, Minnesota. It was in force for 49 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, 12:41 PM CDT (17:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2007, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kittson County, MN, Roseau County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:41 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 25, 12:46 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 7 S Caribou, 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 233 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 251741 TORFGF MNC069-135-251830- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0022.070625T1741Z-070625T1830Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 1241 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... NORTHWESTERN ROSEAU COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 130 PM CDT * AT 1237 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 5 MILES SOUTH OF CARIBOU...OR 31 MILES WEST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4895 9653 4880 9653 4879 9629 4896 9629 $$ GUST
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 251806 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 106 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2007 MNC069-251816- /O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-070625T1830Z/ KITTSON MN- 106 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR KITTSON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... LAT...LON 4894 9632 4879 9631 4880 9588 4895 9589 $$ MNC135-251830- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-070625T1830Z/ ROSEAU MN- 106 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL ROSEAU COUNTY... AT 102 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. THE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF ROSS...OR 13 MILES WEST OF ROSEAU...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4894 9632 4879 9631 4880 9588 4895 9589 $$ GUST
000 WWUS53 KFGF 251824 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 123 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2007 MNC135-251832- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-070625T1830Z/ ROSEAU MN- 123 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL ROSEAU COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 130 PM CDT... AT 119 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF ROSEAU...AND A SECOND ONE LOCATED ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF SALOL. BOTH WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND WERE NO LONGER CONSIDERED SEVERE. SO THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 130 PM CDT. LAT...LON 4894 9632 4879 9631 4880 9588 4895 9589 $$ 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, 12:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Roseau | 54 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.