Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2009, 2:47 PM CDT for Towner County, North Dakota. 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 27, 2009, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2009, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Towner County, ND
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 27, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 271947 TORFGF NDC095-272015- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0018.090627T1947Z-090627T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 247 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN TOWNER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 246 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF CANDO ...OR 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES EAST OF CANDO AT 255 PM CDT... NEWVILLE AT 310 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 4859 9896 4840 9898 4852 9931 4868 9919 TIME...MOT...LOC 1947Z 298DEG 19KT 4857 9919 $$ DTR
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 271959 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 259 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 NDC095-272015- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-090627T2015Z/ TOWNER ND- 259 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN TOWNER COUNTY... AT 257 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED NUMEROUS FUNNEL CLOUDS. THE FUNNELS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANDO TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CANDO...OR 32 MILES NORTH OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NEWVILLE BY 310 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. && LAT...LON 4859 9896 4840 9898 4852 9931 4868 9919 TIME...MOT...LOC 1958Z 298DEG 19KT 4854 9912 $$ DTR
000 WWUS53 KFGF 272016 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 316 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 NDC095-272025- /O.EXP.KFGF.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-090627T2015Z/ TOWNER ND- 316 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN TOWNER COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SLIGHT WEAKENING IN THE STORMS OVER TOWNER COUNTY. IF THESE STORMS RE-INTENSIFY FUNNEL CLOUDS MAY FORM ONCE AGAIN. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4859 9896 4840 9898 4852 9931 4868 9919 TIME...MOT...LOC 1959Z 298DEG 19KT 4854 9911 $$ DTR
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 | Grand Forks, Nelson | 14 hr |
| Jun 26, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Steele, Traill | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 8:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Traill | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Traill | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 9:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Benson, Eddy, Nelson, Ramsey, Towner, Walsh | 11 hr |
| Jun 26, 9:52 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Walsh | 5 days |
| Jun 26, 10:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Traill | 11 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Towner | 5 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FGF | Nelson, Walsh | 3 days |
| Jun 27, 8:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Traill | 3 days |
| Jun 27, 10:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FGF | Benson, Ramsey | 26 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:33 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 5 days |
| Jun 27, 10:33 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Walsh | 6 days |
| Jun 27, 11:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FGF | Cavalier, Towner | 24 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Ramsey, Towner | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 2:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Walsh | 21 min |
| Jun 27, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ramsey, Towner | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Nelson | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 4:33 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Richland | 4 days |
| Jun 27, 6:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Cass | 51 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.