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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 5, 2014

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2014, 5:04 PM CDT. It was in force for 23 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 5, 2014, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2014, 5:27 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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.

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 242 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

355 
WFUS53 KFGF 052204
TORFGF
MNC119-125-052245-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0008.140605T2204Z-140605T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
504 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA...
  NORTHWESTERN RED LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 500 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DOROTHY...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

  IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS AND VEHICLES.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DOROTHY AROUND 515 PM CDT.
  HUOT AROUND 525 PM CDT.
  WYLIE AROUND 530 PM CDT.

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 4779 9636 4793 9664 4802 9654 4801 9647
      4797 9647 4797 9631 4794 9623
TIME...MOT...LOC 2204Z 289DEG 10KT 4795 9648

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

HOPKINS

1 follow-up statement

158 
WWUS53 KFGF 052227
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
527 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

MNC119-125-052237-
/O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-140605T2245Z/
RED LAKE MN-POLK MN-
527 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL POLK AND NORTHWESTERN RED LAKE
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
HOWEVER...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS 
THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 4779 9636 4793 9664 4802 9654 4801 9647
      4797 9647 4797 9631 4794 9623
TIME...MOT...LOC 2227Z 289DEG 10KT 4793 9639

$$

HOPKINS

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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.