Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2008, 7:11 PM CDT for Hubbard County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 min. 5 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 12, 2008, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2008, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Hubbard County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:14 PM CDT | TORNADO 1 | 3 Ssw Nevis, MN | A TORNADO TRACKED FOR ABOUT 1.5 MILES TO AROUND 2 SE NEVIS BY 717 PM CDT. SEVERAL LARGE TREES WERE KNOCKED DOWN OR UPROOTED ALONG A PATH WHICH CROSSED CR 13 SOUTH OF STATE HWY 34. PEAK WINDS ESTIMATED TO 90 MPH. MAXIMUM WIDTH 50 YARDS. |
| Jun 12, 7:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 1 N Nevis, MN | DIME TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL FROM 720 TO 726 PM CDT. |
| Jun 12, 7:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 1 N Nevis, MN | DIME TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL FROM 720 TO 726 PM CDT. |
| Jun 12, 7:30 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 1 E Laporte, MN | |
| Jun 12, 7:30 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Laporte, MN |
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 12, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 130012 TORFGF MNC057-130045- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0013.080613T0011Z-080613T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 711 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HUBBARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 707 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF NEVIS...OR 35 MILES SOUTH OF BEMIDJI...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... AKELEY AT 715 PM CDT... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BENEDICT AT 725 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 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4691 9490 4703 9508 4730 9466 4697 9466 TIME...MOT...LOC 0011Z 242DEG 38KT 4699 9483 $$ JK/BH
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 130028 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 726 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008 MNC057-130045- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-080613T0045Z/ HUBBARD MN- 726 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN HUBBARD COUNTY... AT 721 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF AKELEY...OR 31 MILES SOUTH OF BEMIDJI...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PUBLIC HAS REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR NEVIS AT APPROXIMATELY 715 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4691 9490 4703 9508 4730 9466 4697 9466 TIME...MOT...LOC 0026Z 241DEG 38KT 4708 9466 $$ JK/BH
000 WWUS53 KFGF 130043 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 743 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008 MNC057-130053- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-080613T0045Z/ HUBBARD MN- 743 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN HUBBARD COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 745 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS NO LONGER SEVERE AND SO THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 745 PM CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4691 9490 4703 9508 4730 9466 4697 9466 TIME...MOT...LOC 0043Z 241DEG 38KT 4716 9443 $$ JK/BH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall, Pennington | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Wadena | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Mahnomen, Polk | 54 min |
| Jun 12, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clearwater, Mahnomen | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods | 16 min |
| Jun 12, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Hubbard, Otter Tail | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Clearwater, Hubbard | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 29 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.