The right ingredients came together to form a weak tornado east of Devils Lake. On a cool day with temperatures around 60 degrees, a mid level trough combined with surface convergence along a stationary boundary to produce a short-lived tornado.
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The right ingredients came together to form a weak tornado east of Devils Lake. On a cool day with temperatures around 60 degrees, a mid level trough combined with surface convergence along a stationary boundary to produce a short-lived tornado.
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 Jun 11, 11:38 AM CST, 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 1238 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014 .UPDATE... ISSUED AT 1230 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014 MINOR POP AND RAINFALL AMOUNT ADJUSTMENTS THIS AFTERNOON. RAISED TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE FAR NORTH WHICH HAS SEEN MORE SUN AND LOWERED SLIGHTLY ACROSS FAR SOUTH WITH CONCERNS ON WHETHER CLOUDS WILL BREAK OUT. SURFACE LOW NEAR ABR SO STILL THINKING BEST SVR THREAT WILL BE IN THE ND/MN/SD BORDER VCNTY THEN ENE. UPDATE ISSUED AT 924 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2014 MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE THROUGH THE DAY WILL BE RAIN CHANCES/COVERAGE AND SEVERE THREAT THIS AFTERNOON. MADE SOME MINOR POP TWEEKS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND THIS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE WITH FUTURE UPDATES. OVERALL THOUGHTS ON RAIN AND SEVERE POTENTIAL REMAIN THE SAME AS EARLIER FORECASTS. UPDATE ISSUED AT 713 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2014 NO CHANGES NEEDED FROM EARLIER FCST ISSUANCE. FOLLOWING THE RAP CLOSELY. SFC LOW STILL NR WAHPETON 21Z TIME FRAME AND THIS IS THE BEST AREA/TIME FOR ANY SVR. && .SHORT TERM...(TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY) ISSUED AT 343 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2014 FOCUS TODAY IS RAIN AMOUNTS AND CHC OF SVR WEATHER IN SRN FCST AREA. POTENT 500 MB WAVE IN CENTRAL MONTANA WILL MOVE EAST AND INTENSIFY OVER ERN DAKOTAS AND MINNESOTA LATE THIS AFTN/EVE. AS IT DOES SFC LOW WILL INTENSIFY OVER CENTRAL-NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND MOVE EAST-NORTHEAST TOWARD WAHPETON ND BY 21-23Z PERIOD AND THEN EAST-NORTHEAST FROM THERE. ALL INDICATIONS ARE THERE THAT AN AREA OF WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT REGION FROM BISMARCK THROUGH JAMESTOWN TO FARGO-GRAND FORKS THEN TO BEMIDJI REGION. SHARP CUTOFF TO THE NORTHWEST OF GRAND FORKS. NOW FROM FARGO-PARK RAPIDS SOUTHWARD...ENOUGH INSTABILITY SHOULD OCCUR PROVIDED GET SOME HEATING TO GENERATE A ROUND OF STRONG-SEVERE STORMS 21Z-01Z PERIOD. RAP MODEL SHOWS SITUATION QUITE WELL I BELIEVE WITH SFC LOW LISBON ND AREA 20Z THEN TO DETROIT LAKES AT 23Z. HOP WRF/SPC SREF/RAP ALL HAVE MUCAPES IN THE 1500 J/KG RANGE JUST SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF SFC LOW AND RAP HAS VGP IN THE .3-.35 RANGE JUST EAST OF SFC LOW IN THE LATE AFTN. THIS FOLLOWS IDEA FROM SPC DAY 1 OUTLOOK ISSUED NR 06Z IN HAVING A 5 PCT TORNADO RISK AREA NR THE ND/SD/MN BORDER REGION. DID FOLLOW WFO ABR LEAD AND MENTIONED SEVERE STORMS IN GRIDDS FOR LATE AFTN-EARLY EVE IN THIS REGION. HPC QPF STILL MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN MODEL QPF DUE TO RELATIVELY QUICK PERIOD OF 1.4 INCH PWATS. SO FOLLOWED FROM OTHER OFFICES AND USED BLEND OF HPC QPF/SUPERBLEND MODEL QPF. THIS AVERAGED THE LOWER HPC AND THE HIGHER END SREF/SUPERBLEND QPF. MAX AREA OF 1 TO 1.50 INCHES STILL SEEMS REASONABLE IN THE JAMESTOWN- MAYVILLE-BEMIDJI REGION. BUT AT THE PRESENT IT SHOULD FALL OVER A PERIOD TIME AND NOT PRODUCE EXTREME RUNOFF ISSUES. IF STORMS FORM IN CITY LOCATIONS THAN OF COURSE COULD HAVE BRIEF RUNOFF ISSUES OVER CONCRETE...WITH MORE ADVISORY SITUATIONS. THUS NO AREAL FLOOD WATCH ISSUED. RAIN AREA WILL MOVE EAST SLOWLY TONIGHT. SKIES WILL CLEAR OVER ERN ND EARLY THURSDAY AND IN THE EAST LATER IN THE DAY. .LONG TERM...(THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY) ISSUED AT 343 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2014 HIGH PRESSURE OVER AREA THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY AHEAD OF NEXT WEATHER SYSTEM DUE TO ARRIVE FRI NIGHT WITH INCREASING CHANCES FOR SHOWERS/STORMS FRI NIGHT FROM THE WEST. SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...00 UTC MEDIUM-RANGE MODELS (GFS/ECMWF/GEM) ARE IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT THROUGH 00 UTC SUNDAY... DIVERGING MARKEDLY THEREAFTER IN TIMING AND PLACEMENT OF SHORT-WAVES IN PROGRESSIVE ZONAL FLOW. BEST CHANCES FOR WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AS A STRONG 500 HPA TROUGH MOVES OUT OF THE NORTHERN ROCKIES AND INTO THE PLAINS. THERE MAY BE A BRIEF DRY SLOT PERIOD SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING BEFORE MORE PRECIP WRAPS AROUND THE BACKSIDE OF THE LOW LATER SUNDAY. SUNDAY NIGHT INTO PORTIONS OF MONDAY APPEAR MOSTLY DRY AT THIS TIME. FORECAST BECOMES INCREASINGLY MESSY LATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY AS GFS/ECMWF 500 HPA WAVE TRAIN MOVES ABOUT 90 DEGREES OUT OF PHASE. WILL FOLLOW ALL BLEND POPS WHICH SHOW LOW END CHANCES MOST PERIODS EARLY NEXT WEEK. NO BIG WARM-UP ON THE HORIZON WITH NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. HIGHS WILL CONTINUE TO TOP OUT IN THE UPPER 60S TO MID 70S WITH LOWS IN THE 50S. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z THURSDAY AFTERNOON) ISSUED AT 1230 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014 EXPECT SHOWERS TO CONTINUE OVER MOST OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT AS LOW PRESSURE CONTINUES TO IMPACT THE REGION. THERE WILL BE SOME POCKETS OF MVR CIGS...BUT DO NOT EXPECT ENOUGH COVERAGE TO SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT THE TAF SITES ATTM. MAIN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN THE SE PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA LATER TODAY...AND FARGO IS WITHIN THE AREA OF GREATEST CHANCES FOR TSTMS SO INCLUDED IN THE TAF FOR LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OTHERWISE...WILL SEE MAINLY SHOWERS AT THE OTHER SITES...WITH OCCASIONAL TSTMS IN THE AREA. && .FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ND...NONE. MN...NONE. && UPDATE...VOELKER SHORT TERM...RIDDLE LONG TERM...RIDDLE/ROGERS AVIATION...HOPKINS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 721 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2014 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-121230- WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS- WEST MARSHALL-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE- EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN- SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN- WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER- PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS- GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- WESTERN WALSH- 721 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL AND SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL STRAIGHTEN TODAY OVER SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND THEN MOVE INTO NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA EARLY THIS EVENING. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL WILL BE JAMESTOWN THROUGH GRAND FORKS-MAYVILLE TO BAUDETTE AREAS WITH 1-2 INCHES OF RAIN EXPECTED. OF CONCERN IS SEVERE RISK IN THE FAR SOUTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THERE IS A PERIOD FROM 3 PM UNTIL 8 PM WHERE A FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AND ENOUGH WIND SHEAR EXISTS FOR A FEW SUPERCELLS WITH POSSIBLE TORNADOES. THE RISK AREA IS MAINLY FORMAN-LISBON-FARGO-DETROIT LAKES-PARK RAPIDS AND POINTS SOUTH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ANOTHER WET SYSTEM IS DUE THIS WEEKEND. SOME STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE SOUTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY BUT AT THIS TIME SEVERE RISKS REMAIN LOW. BUT THIS COULD CHANGE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FOR A BRIEF TIME LATER TODAY. DTR
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:12 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
The tornado tracked north to south in open country approximately parallel to 85th avenue northeast. No damage was reported to any structures.
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