1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 11, 1:10 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 210 PM CDT MON JUL 11 2005 RATHER TRANQUIL PERIOD COMING UP...OUTSIDE OF THIS EVENING CONVECTION AND CHC OF CONVECTION LATE THURSDAY. .SHORT TERM... 18Z SFC MAP SHOWS WEAK SFC LOW BTWN FARGO AND FOSSTON...WITH A FRONT NORTHEAST TO JUST WEST OF BAUDETTE AND THEN SOUTH FROM THE LOW TO JUST WEST OF WAHPETON. KMVX 88D SHOWS BOUNDARY LOCATED FROM AROUND LOW LOCATION WEST OF FOSSTON SOUTH ACROSS NRN CLAY COUNTY MN THEN INTO RICHLAND COUNTY. ISOLD TSRA FIRING ALONG THIS BOUNDARY ATTM AND WOULD EXPECT ACTIVITY TO INCREASE QUICKLY NEXT HOUR WITH ISOLD SVR QUITE LIKELY ESPECIALLY AS ACTIVITY HEADS EAST INTO HOT AND HUMID AIRMASS IN THE BJI/PKD AREAS WHERE TEMPS TODAY ARE AROUND 90 AND DEW PTS IN THE LOWER 70S. SHEAR IS WEAK...BUT ENOUGH GROWTH OF THE STORMS TO PRODUCE SOME HAIL AND LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS. STORM CORES WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN BUT THEY WILL MOVE MOVING. ENTIRE STORM ACTIVITY BEING AIDED BY SHORT WAVE AND ASSOC DRYING NICELY SEEN ON WATER VAPOR ENTERING SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. ACTIVITY WILL BE OVER WITH BY 05Z...THEN CLEARING WILL PROGRESS QUICKLY EAST AS HIGH BUILDS OVER NORTH DAKOTA. WORRIED ABOUT SOME FOG FORMATION OVERNIGHT. WILL NOT INCLUDE IT AS AIRMASS IS DRYING OUT BEHIND FRONT. WILL ALERT EVENING CREW TO POSSIBILITY. HIGH PRESSURE TO RESIDE OVER REGION TUE INTO WED. CONVECTIVE TEMPS PER ETA SOUNDINGS IN THE MIDDLE 80S ON TUESDAY WITH DECENT 850 MB MOISTURE AVBL FOR DIURNAL CUMULUS. WEDNESDAY WILL SEE WARMER SFC-500 MB LAYER AND NEARLY FULL SUN. TEMPS BOTH DAYS QUITE WARM WITH MIDDLE 80S TUE AND MANY SITES GETTING CLOSE TO 90 ON WEDNESDAY. PREFER ETA/CANADIAN IDEA ON NEXT SYSTEM DUE THURSDAY AFTERNOON. ALL MODELS HAVE HAD GENERAL PATTERN WITH A SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVING NORTHEAST OUT OF THE PAC NORTHWEST INTO SRN SASK/MB THURSDAY. LOOKS LIKE SFC LOW IN MANITOBA WITH A FRONT/TROUGH SOUTH INTO ERN ND IN THE AFTN WILL PROGRESS INTO MN THURSDAY EVENING. 700 MB TEMPS ARE QUITE WARM AHEAD OF FRONT...WITH ETA COOLEST IN SHOWING ANY CAP BREAKING RIGHT ALONG FRONT DURING PEAK HEATING. FEEL ENOUGH MOISTURE/LIFT AVBL FOR INSERTION OF A 20-30 POP FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAR NW MN AND ERN ND THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AND FOR NW/WCNTRL MN THURSDAY NIGHT UNTIL MIDNIGHT. .LONG TERM (FRI-MON)... EXTENDED FORECAST STILL LOOKING FAIRLY CONSISTENT...WITH NATIONAL DISCUSSIONS FAVORING THE 00Z GFS/ECMWF. THEREFORE LOOKS LIKE 2 DISTINCT PCPN CHANCES...ONE LINGERING BETWEEN 00-12Z FRI AND THE SECOND IN THE SUN/MON TIME FRAME. OVERALL 500MB PATTERN IS NEARLY ZONAL EARLY ON...WHICH SHOULD LEAD TO A PROGRESSIVE FRONT WITH THE FIRST SYSTEM. SECOND SYSTEM LOOKING MORE ROBUST...WITH BOTH THE GFS AND ECMWF CLOSING OFF A LOW AT 500MB. 12Z GFS DID COME IN A BIT FASTER WITH THE SUN/MON SYSTEM...BUT WILL HOLD OFF ON SPEEDING IT UP TOO MUCH YET. DID START PCPN ABOUT 6 HOURS FASTER TO BLEND CLOSER TO NEIGHBORS. OVERALL...TEMPS LOOK TO STAY ON THE WARM SIDE...BUT THEY DO COOL AS THE 500MB LOW CLOSES OFF OVER THE AREA. && .AVIATION... THE KGFK TAF SHOULD BE OUT OF THE WOODS AS FAR AS PCPN CHANCES. CHANCES STILL LINGER FOR THE KFAR TAF FOR A FEW MORE HOURS AND WILL TAKE UNTIL MID EVENING TO CLEAR OUT OF THE KBJI AREA. FAIRLY WEAK NORTHWEST SFC WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT...WHICH ARE LIKELY TO GO LIGHT OVERNIGHT. WILL LEAVE FOG MENTION OUT FOR NOW AND LET EVENING SHIFT RE-EVALUATE. && .FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ND...NONE. MN...NONE && RIDDLE
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1215 PM CDT MON JUL 11 2005 UPDATED INFORMATION FOR TODAY MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-121130- BARNES ND-BENSON ND-CASS ND-CAVALIER ND-CLAY MN-EAST BECKER MN- EAST MARSHALL MN-EAST OTTER TAIL MN-EAST POLK MN- EASTERN WALSH COUNTY ND-EDDY ND-GRAND FORKS ND-GRANT MN-GRIGGS ND- HUBBARD MN-KITTSON MN-LAKE OF THE WOODS MN-MAHNOMEN MN-NELSON ND- NORMAN MN-NORTH BELTRAMI MN-NORTH CLEARWATER MN-PEMBINA ND- PENNINGTON MN-RAMSEY ND-RANSOM ND-RED LAKE MN-RICHLAND ND-ROSEAU MN- SARGENT ND-SOUTH BELTRAMI MN-SOUTH CLEARWATER MN-STEELE ND-TOWNER ND- TRAILL ND-WADENA MN-WEST BECKER MN-WEST MARSHALL MN- WEST OTTER TAIL MN-WEST POLK MN-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY ND-WILKIN MN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BEMIDJI...DETROIT LAKES...DEVILS LAKE... FARGO...FERGUS FALLS...GRAFTON...GRAND FORKS...LANGDON...ROSEAU... THIEF RIVER FALLS...VALLEY CITY AND WAHPETON 1215 PM CDT MON JUL 11 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND INCREASE IN COVERAGE MAINLY EAST OF A ROSEAU TO FARGO TO LISBON LINE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR TWO IS POSSIBLE...WITH HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THE MAIN THREAT. ACROSS NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. A WEAK FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON. OUT AHEAD OF THE FRONT...THE AIRMASS WILL BE VERY WARM AND HUMID. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT THE FOLLOWING URL. WEATHER.GOV/GRANDFORKS USING LOWER CASE RIDDLE
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:39 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Intermittent touchdowns occurred along the damage path. Anticyclonic (clockwise) rotation was evident in the tree damage that occurred in shelterbelts.
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