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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 26, 2016Barnes County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 2016, 2:38 PM CDT for Barnes County, North Dakota. It was in force for 25 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: Jul 26, 2016, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2016, 3:03 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Barnes County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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
Jul 26, 2:40 PM CDT	TORNADO 0	5 Wnw Valley City, ND	A BRIEF /MINUTE OR SO/ TOUCHDOWN WAS REPORTED BY A TRAVELLER ON INTERSTATE 94 NEAR MP294...WEST OF VALLEY CITY...LOOKING ACROSS HOBART LAKE. THE TOUCHDOWN APPEARED TO BE IN AN OPENED FIELD IN CENTRAL HOBART TOWNSHIP. REPORT AND PHOTO POSTED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. T
Jul 26, 2:40 PM CDT	TORNADO 0	5 Wnw Valley City, ND	A BRIEF /MINUTE OR SO/ TOUCHDOWN WAS REPORTED BY A TRAVELLER ON INTERSTATE 94 NEAR MP294...WEST OF VALLEY CITY...LOOKING NORTHEAST ACROSS HOBART LAKE. THE TOUCHDOWN APPEARED TO BE IN AN OPENED FIELD IN CENTRAL HOBART TOWNSHIP. REPORT AND PHOTO POSTED VIA SOCIA

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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 1761 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

305 
WFUS53 KFGF 261938
TORFGF
NDC003-262015-
/O.NEW.KFGF.TO.W.0021.160726T1938Z-160726T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
238 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BARNES COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT
    
* AT 238 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS
  LOCATED NEAR BALD HILL DAM...OR NEAR VALLEY CITY...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...
  BALD HILL DAM AROUND 240 PM CDT. 
  VALLEY CITY AROUND 300 PM CDT. 

ALSO INCLUDES INTERSTATE 94 IN NORTH DAKOTA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 291
AND 295.
 
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 4699 9820 4708 9827 4703 9787 4687 9796
TIME...MOT...LOC 1938Z 265DEG 8KT 4698 9809 

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

$$

JK

1 follow-up statement

664 
WWUS53 KFGF 262003
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
303 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016

NDC003-262011-
/O.CAN.KFGF.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160726T2015Z/
BARNES ND-
303 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BARNES COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 

ADDITIONAL BRIEF FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION THIS
AFTERNOON. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS.

LAT...LON 4699 9820 4708 9827 4703 9787 4687 9796
TIME...MOT...LOC 1959Z 265DEG 8KT 4698 9801 

$$

JR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Ramsey	39 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.