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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 11, 2008, 4:13 PM CDT for Becker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 40 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
- Jul 11, 2008, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2008, 4:53 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Becker County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFGF 112113 TORFGF MNC005-112215- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0040.080711T2113Z-080711T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 413 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL BECKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 412 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOAD LAKE...OR 13 MILES EAST OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 39 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... TOAD LAKE AT 420 PM CDT... SNELLMAN AT 425 PM CDT... 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PONSFORD AT 430 PM CDT... OSAGE AT 435 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWAY OR A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4705 9531 4682 9517 4674 9565 4687 9569 TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 242DEG 34KT 4682 9555 $$ GUST/PR
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 112129 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 429 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2008 MNC005-112215- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0040.000000T0000Z-080711T2215Z/ BECKER MN- 429 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL BECKER COUNTY... AT 426 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOLF LAKE...OR 21 MILES EAST OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE ABOUT... NEAR SNELLMAN BY 435 PM CDT... OSAGE BY 440 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWAY OR A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4705 9531 4682 9517 4674 9565 4687 9569 TIME...MOT...LOC 2129Z 242DEG 31KT 4685 9537 $$ GUST
000 WWUS53 KFGF 112153 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 453 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2008 MNC005-112203- /O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0040.000000T0000Z-080711T2215Z/ BECKER MN- 453 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL BECKER COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 449 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 4 MILES WEST OF PARK RAPIDS...OR 34 MILES EAST OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 36 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND WAS NO LONGER CONSIDERED SEVERE. SO THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4705 9531 4682 9517 4674 9565 4687 9569 TIME...MOT...LOC 2153Z 242DEG 31KT 4695 9510 $$ GUST/PR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail, Wilkin | 67 min |
| Jul 10, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail | 57 min |
| Jul 11, 5:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 59 min |
| Jul 11, 6:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 63 min |
| Jul 11, 8:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 38 min |
| Jul 11, 9:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall, Pennington, Polk | 65 min |
| Jul 11, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman | 55 min |
| Jul 11, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman, Polk | 67 min |
| Jul 11, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall, Roseau | 53 min |
| Jul 11, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Otter Tail | 59 min |
| Jul 11, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Mahnomen | 41 min |
| Jul 11, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Polk | 38 min |
| Jul 11, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Marshall, Roseau | 64 min |
| Jul 11, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 60 min |
| Jul 11, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Otter Tail | 59 min |
| Jul 11, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Mahnomen, Polk | 61 min |
| Jul 11, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Roseau | 59 min |
| Jul 11, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 52 min |
| Jul 11, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Polk | 44 min |
| Jul 11, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail, Wadena | 41 min |
| Jul 11, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 61 min |
| Jul 11, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard, Wadena | 30 min |
| Jul 11, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington | 57 min |
| Jul 11, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena | 31 min |
| Jul 11, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 21 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.