Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2008, 7:32 PM CDT for Wadena County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 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
- Jun 12, 2008, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wadena County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 203 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 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 130032 TORFGF MNC159-130100- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0014.080613T0032Z-080613T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 732 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN WADENA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 731 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BLUE GRASS...OR 49 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DETROIT LAKES... MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 38 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OYLEN AT 740 PM CDT... NIMROD AT 745 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 4680 9480 4650 9479 4645 9486 4654 9502 TIME...MOT...LOC 0032Z 213DEG 33KT 4652 9491 $$ JK/BH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFGF 130057 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 757 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008 MNC159-130107- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-080613T0100Z/ WADENA MN- 757 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN WADENA COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 800 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS NO LONGER SEVERE AND SO THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 800 PM CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4680 9480 4650 9479 4645 9486 4654 9502 TIME...MOT...LOC 0057Z 213DEG 33KT 4671 9473 $$ 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, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 34 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 |
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.