1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 7, 1:35 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 235 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2003 FORECAST CHALLENGE THROUGH PERIOD CONTINUES TO REVOLVE AROUND PRECIPITATION CHANCES AND TEMPERATURES. MODELS INITIALLY IN GOOD AGREEMENT THEN DIFFER ON TIMING OF NEXT WAVE AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE FEATURES. WITH ETA PERFORMANCE ON LAST SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO USE MAINLY FOR GRIDS. INVERTED TROUGH TO CONTINUE TO SAG AND PULL EAST WITH MAIN LOW. CLOUD COVER SO FAR HAS LIMITED DESTABILIZATION HOWEVER CLOUD SHIELD BECOMING MORE CELLULAR AND WITH STATE OF ATMOSPHERE AND EXISTING BOUNDARIES WILL MAINTAIN EVENING MENTION OF TSRA REGION WIDE. AS IN PAST DAYS AS AIRMASS STABILIZES AND LOSS OF HEATING T SHOULD BE DONE LATE THIS EVENING LEAVING RESIDUAL SHOWERS. DEFORMATION CLOUD SHIELD TRANSITING FA SHOULD KEEP CLOUDS IN OVER MOST AREAS. EXCEPTION POSSIBLY OF NW FA WHERE MAY SEE BREAKS LATE AND WITH DRIER AIR MOVING IN WILL SEE COOLEST READINGS. UPPER LOW FINALLY LOOSENS GRIPS ON REGION SUNDAY. COOLER AND SOMEWHAT DRIER BEGINS TO BE PULLED INTO FA DURING DAY FROM NW TO SE. WEAK SHORTWAVE DROPS THROUGH SUNDAY SO MAY NEED TO KEEP MINOR POPS IN FROM VALLEY REGION EAST. MAY LIMIT PCPN OVER VALLEY TO AM HOURS. WITH COLD POOL ALOFT CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES LOWER TO AROUND 60 SO COMBINATION OF THIS AND COLD ADVECTION TEMPERATURES MAY BE A FEW DEGREES COLDER. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN SUNDAY NIGHT FOR BREAK FROM RAIN CHANCES. WITH RIDGE OVER FA AND 850 MB TEMPERATURES FROM 4-6C MAY BE SOMEWHAT COOL NIGHT. NEXT WAVE DROPS THROUGH NW FLOW APPROACHING FA LATE MONDAY. BASED ON ETA TIMING WILL LIMIT POPS TO FAR NW DURING DAY. AM A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT STRENGTH OF WARM ADVECTION OVER NE SD DURING AFTERNOON HOWEVER FOR NOW WILL KEEP SW DRY. 850MB TEMEPRATURES RECOVER SOMEWHAT AND WITH ATLEAST PARTIAL SOLAR EXPECTED WILL LEAN TOWARDS WARMER ETA. BOUNDARY PUSHES THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. GREATEST INSTABILITY...CAPE TO OUR SOUTH HOWEVER WILL MAINTAIN THUNDER CHANCES. HIGH PRESSURE TO FOLLOW BOUNDARY MONDAY NIGHT. INTERPOLATING TIMING OF BOUNDARY MAY LEAVE IN AM MENTION OF SHRA. BASED ON 850 MB TEMPERATURES AND THICKNESS WILL BE ANOTHER SUB AVERAGE DAY TEMPERATURE WISE. .EXTENDED(WED-SAT)... A SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL APPROACH THE REGION EARLY IN THE PERIOD ON WEDNESDAY AS A MORE ZONAL FLOW SETS UP. GFS IS THE FASTEST WITH SYSTEM...BRINGING IT INTO THE DEVILS LAKE REGION BY LATE AFTERNOON WHILE THE CANADIAN/ECMWF SOLUTIONS SUGGEST 6-12 HRS SLOWER. WILL KEEP THUNDER MENTION ALONG THE RED RIVER VALLEY AND WEST ON WED AND THEN BRING INTO MINNESOTA WED NIGHT. WARMER TEMPERATURES EXPECTED THURS THROUGH SAT AS TROUGH BEGINS TO DEVELOP OFF THE PACIFIC COAST. WITH INCONSISTENT RUN TO RUN ISSUES WITH LONG RANGE GUIDANCE ON WAVES EMBEDDED WITHIN THE FLOW...WILL KEEP CONSISTENCY AND REMAIN DRY REMAINDER OF EXTENDED. 06Z GFS HINTS AT POSSIBLE SYSTEM FOR FRIDAY...WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR. .FGF...NONE. VOELKER/DONAVON
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-071400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 655 AM CDT SAT JUN 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREAT... ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING OVER THE AREA. AFTERNOON HEATING COMBINED WITH RELATIVELY COLD AIR ALOFT WILL PRODUCE THE UNSTABLE CONDITIONS AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR AGAIN LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY NIGHT...AS A COLD FRONT SWEEPS INTO THE REGION. AT THIS POINT...THE COLD FRONT WILL ONLY MAKE IT INTO EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA BY EARLY TUESDAY...WHICH WOULD KEEP THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEST OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. GODON
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:18 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
The tornado briefly touched down in an open field.
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