Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2014
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2014, 7:32 PM CDT for Towner County, North Dakota. It was in force for 28 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 4, 2014, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2014, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Towner County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 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 4, 7:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | Hansboro, ND | VIA KVLY FARGO FACEBOOK. |
| Jun 4, 8:05 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 E Hansboro, ND | HAIL RANGED IN SIZE FROM PEA TO QUARTER. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 828 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
985
WFUS53 KFGF 050032
TORFGF
NDC095-050100-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0004.140605T0032Z-140605T0100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
732 PM CDT WED JUN 4 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN TOWNER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 729 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HANSBORO...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS AND VEHICLES.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN
TOWNER COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
THEY WILL SEND YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND
FORKS.
&&
LAT...LON 4899 9954 4900 9952 4901 9903 4890 9920
4881 9954
TIME...MOT...LOC 0032Z 237DEG 26KT 4893 9942
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
HOPKINSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Towner | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Towner | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 12:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FGF | Cavalier, Ramsey, Walsh | 9 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 39 min |
| Jun 5, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 4:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Sargent | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass, Ransom, Richland | 30 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.