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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2008, 5:52 PM CDT for Grant County, Otter Tail County, Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 min. 2 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 14, 2008, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2008, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Grant County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wilkin County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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 14, 6:12 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 4 W Fergus Falls, MN | |
| Jun 14, 6:15 PM CDT | TORNADO | Fergus Falls, MN | TOUCHDOWN ON WEST SIDE OF FERGUS FALLS NEAR WAL-MART AT 615 TILL 620. NO STRUCTURAL DAMAGE OR INJURIES. NUMEROUS TREES...BRANCHES...AND POWER LINES DOWN. SOME POWER OUTAGES OVERNIGHT. |
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 14, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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 142252 TORFGF MNC051-111-167-142315- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0018.080614T2252Z-080614T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 552 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN GRANT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHWESTERN OTTER TAIL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FERGUS FALLS... CENTRAL WILKIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 548 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 3 MILES NORTH OF DORAN...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WAHPETON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 34 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... FOXHOME AT 600 PM CDT... WESTERN AT 610 PM CDT... 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FERGUS FALLS AT 615 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 SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4631 9593 4605 9606 4613 9650 4627 9657 TIME...MOT...LOC 2252Z 277DEG 30KT 4622 9643 $$ JK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:39 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Marshall | 43 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay, Norman | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay, Wilkin | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Norman, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 65 min |
| Jun 14, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Mahnomen, Norman, Polk | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Mahnomen, Norman, Otter Tail | 53 min |
| Jun 14, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail, Wilkin | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail | 25 min |
| Jun 14, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard | 49 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.