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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2007, 7:37 PM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 53 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 26, 2007, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2007, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kittson County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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 26, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 1237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 270037 TORFGF MNC069-270130- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0036.070827T0037Z-070827T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 737 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 737 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR NOYES...OR 41 MILES NORTH OF GRAFTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ORLEANS AT 750 PM CDT... 5 MILES NORTH OF LANCASTER AT 800 PM CDT... CARIBOU AT 820 PM 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 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4899 9721 4887 9716 4879 9646 4898 9644 $$ DK/CS
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 270110 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 809 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2007 MNC069-270130- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-070827T0130Z/ KITTSON MN- 809 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN KITTSON COUNTY... AT 809 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF ORLEANS...OR 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAFTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE ABOUT... 10 MILES NORTH OF LANCASTER BY 815 PM CDT... 5 MILES WEST OF CARIBOU BY 830 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4899 9721 4887 9716 4879 9646 4898 9644 $$ DK/CS
000 WWUS53 KFGF 270123 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 822 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2007 MNC069-270132- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-070827T0130Z/ KITTSON MN- 822 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN KITTSON COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 830 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS NO LONGER SEVERE AND SO THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 830 PM CDT. A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN KITTSON AND NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4899 9721 4887 9716 4879 9646 4898 9644 $$ DK/CS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall | 66 min |
| Aug 26, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 66 min |
| Aug 26, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Marshall | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 64 min |
| Aug 26, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 9:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 54 min |
| Aug 26, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Marshall | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington, Red Lake | 56 min |
| Aug 26, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 51 min |
| Aug 26, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 62 min |
| Aug 27, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant | 39 min |
| Aug 27, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Otter Tail | 51 min |
| Aug 27, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Otter Tail, Wadena | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 55 min |
| Aug 27, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 30 min |
| Aug 27, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 30 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.