Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at May 18, 2007, 8:20 PM CDT for Barnes County, North Dakota. It was in force for 55 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
- May 18, 2007, 8:20 PM CDT (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2007, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Barnes County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 9:14 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 2 E Oriska, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 858 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 190120 TORFGF NDC003-190215- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0006.070519T0120Z-070519T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 820 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 819 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BALD HILL DAM...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF VALLEY CITY... MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ORISKA AT 900 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 1100 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4721 9795 4709 9814 4686 9773 4710 9772 $$ DK
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 190129 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 828 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2007 NDC003-190215- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070519T0215Z/ BARNES ND- 828 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTY... AT 820 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR LAKE ASHTABULA. THE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BALD HILL DAM...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF VALLEY CITY...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE FUNNEL CLOUD WILL BE NEAR... ORISKA BY 905 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4721 9795 4709 9814 4686 9773 4710 9772 $$ DK
000 WWUS53 KFGF 190152 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 851 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2007 NDC003-190215- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070519T0215Z/ BARNES ND- 851 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTY... AT 850 PM CDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 3.5 MILES NORTHEAST OF VALLEY CITY. * THE FUNNEL CLOUD WILL BE NEAR... ORISKA BY 905 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 1100 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4721 9795 4709 9814 4686 9773 4710 9772 $$ DK
000 WWUS53 KFGF 190215 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 915 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2007 NDC003-190225- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070519T0215Z/ BARNES ND- 915 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTY EXPIRED AT 915 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS NO LONGER TORNADIC...AND SO THE WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 915 PM CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA. LAT...LON 4721 9795 4709 9814 4686 9773 4710 9772 $$ DK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Ramsey | 58 min |
| May 18, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 53 min |
| May 18, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 64 min |
| May 18, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 59 min |
| May 18, 9:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Cass | 12 hr |
| May 18, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 43 min |
| May 18, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 58 min |
| May 18, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass, Traill | 65 min |
| May 18, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 52 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.