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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 19, 2016Pennington County, Red Lake County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2016, 9:04 PM CDT for Pennington County, Red Lake County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 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: Jul 19, 2016, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2016, 9:31 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Pennington County, MN, Red Lake County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 19, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 232 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: 581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

As transmitted.

100 
WFUS53 KFGF 200204
TORFGF
MNC113-125-200245-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0018.160720T0204Z-160720T0245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
904 PM CDT TUE JUL 19 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN RED LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA...
  SOUTHWESTERN PENNINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
    
* AT 904 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER WYLIE...OR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THIEF
  RIVER FALLS... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WYLIE AROUND 910 PM CDT. 
  RED LAKE FALLS AROUND 925 PM CDT. 
  ST. HILAIRE AROUND 930 PM CDT. 
  HAZEL AROUND 945 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 OFFICE IN
GRAND FORKS.

&&

LAT...LON 4790 9647 4808 9648 4808 9606 4789 9606
TIME...MOT...LOC 0204Z 279DEG 17KT 4799 9639 

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

$$

HOPKINS

1 follow-up statement

235 
WWUS53 KFGF 200231
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
931 PM CDT TUE JUL 19 2016

MNC113-125-200240-
/O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-160720T0245Z/
RED LAKE MN-PENNINGTON MN-
931 PM CDT TUE JUL 19 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN RED LAKE AND SOUTHWESTERN
PENNINGTON COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4790 9647 4808 9648 4808 9606 4789 9606
TIME...MOT...LOC 0229Z 279DEG 17KT 4797 9620 

$$

TG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall, Polk	60 min
Jul 19, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater	40 min
Jul 19, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Polk	61 min
Jul 19, 8:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FGF	Polk	89 min
Jul 19, 8:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Beltrami	26 min
Jul 19, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clearwater, Pennington, Polk	62 min
Jul 19, 8:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Polk, Red Lake	36 min
Jul 19, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	61 min
Jul 19, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Beltrami	50 min
Jul 19, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater	56 min
Jul 19, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard	61 min
Jul 19, 11:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Hubbard	29 min
Jul 20, 3:05 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	FGF	Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 5 more	18 hr
Jul 20, 3:05 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall and 5 more	18 hr

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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.