Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 2009, 8:51 PM CDT for Polk County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 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 26, 2009, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2009, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Polk County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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 26, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 2632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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 270151 TORFGF MNC119-270230- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0016.090627T0151Z-090627T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 851 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 849 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ELDRED...OR 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CROOKSTON AT 915 PM CDT... HAROLD AT 920 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. && LAT...LON 4790 9650 4765 9645 4759 9683 4779 9687 TIME...MOT...LOC 0150Z 257DEG 25KT 4769 9680 $$ DK/JK
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 270156 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 856 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 2009 MNC119-270230- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-090627T0230Z/ POLK MN- 856 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR WESTERN POLK COUNTY... AT 855 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ELDRED...OR 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CROOKSTON BY 915 PM CDT... HAROLD BY 920 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. && LAT...LON 4790 9650 4765 9645 4759 9683 4779 9687 TIME...MOT...LOC 0156Z 257DEG 25KT 4770 9674 $$ DK/JK
000 WWUS53 KFGF 270210 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 910 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 2009 MNC119-270230- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-090627T0230Z/ POLK MN- 910 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL POLK COUNTY... AT 909 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF CROOKSTON...OR 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAND FORKS... MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CROOKSTON BY 915 PM CDT... HAROLD BY 925 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. && LAT...LON 4790 9650 4765 9645 4759 9683 4779 9687 TIME...MOT...LOC 0210Z 258DEG 23KT 4771 9663 $$ DK/JK
000 WWUS53 KFGF 270228 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 928 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 2009 MNC119-270239- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-090627T0230Z/ POLK MN- 928 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL POLK COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 930 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS NO LONGER SEVERE AND SO THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 930 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4790 9650 4765 9645 4759 9683 4779 9687 TIME...MOT...LOC 0229Z 258DEG 23KT 4773 9645 $$ DK/JK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Polk | 14 hr |
| Jun 26, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 8:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Pennington, Polk | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 10:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Norman | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 10:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 11 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FGF | Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 3 days |
| Jun 27, 9:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Kittson | 6 days |
| Jun 27, 10:33 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Polk | 5 days |
| Jun 27, 10:33 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Marshall, Polk | 6 days |
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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.