Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 2009, 6:15 PM CDT for Richland County, North Dakota; Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report 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 18, 2009, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2009, 6:52 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 6:29 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 58 | 3 W Tenney, MN | PEAK WINDS NEAR TENNEY RWIS SITE ON HIGHWAY 75. |
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 18, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 725 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 182315 TORFGF MNC167-NDC077-190015- /O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0007.090618T2315Z-090619T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 615 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAHPETON... SOUTHERN WILKIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 612 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF WAHPETON...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WAHPETON AT 625 PM CDT... BRECKENRIDGE AT 630 PM CDT... 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF DORAN AT 640 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 THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. && LAT...LON 4620 9629 4603 9629 4605 9678 4631 9673 TIME...MOT...LOC 2314Z 245DEG 10KT 4626 9666 $$ HOPKINS
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFGF 182339 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 639 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009 MNC167-NDC077-190015- /O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-090619T0015Z/ WILKIN MN-RICHLAND ND- 639 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL RICHLAND AND SOUTHERN WILKIN COUNTIES... AT 639 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRECKENRIDGE...OR 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF WAHPETON...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. && LAT...LON 4620 9629 4603 9629 4605 9678 4631 9673 TIME...MOT...LOC 2339Z 245DEG 10KT 4629 9657 $$ HOPKINS
000 WWUS53 KFGF 182352 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 652 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009 MNC167-NDC077-190002- /O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-090619T0015Z/ WILKIN MN-RICHLAND ND- 652 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL RICHLAND AND SOUTHERN WILKIN COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... AT 652 PM CDT...TORNADO MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA IN SOUTHERN WILKIN AND EAST CENTRAL RICHLAND COUNTIES SO THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4620 9629 4603 9629 4605 9678 4631 9673 TIME...MOT...LOC 2352Z 245DEG 10KT 4630 9652 $$ HOPKINS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 1:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Ransom | 36 min |
| Jun 18, 2:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Pembina | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pembina | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 2:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Ransom | 29 min |
| Jun 18, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 65 min |
| Jun 18, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pembina | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 3:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Pembina | 18 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Ransom | 41 min |
| Jun 18, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Cavalier | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 4:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 17 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass, Ransom, Richland | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Sargent | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 4:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Ransom | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass, Richland | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Richland | 53 min |
| Jun 18, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 58 min |
| Jun 18, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Richland | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Richland | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 6:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FGF | Cavalier, Towner | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 3:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Kittson | 32 min |
| Jun 18, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Becker | 28 min |
| Jun 18, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail, Wilkin | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant | 55 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.