Video of the tornado-warned supercell that developed near Lakota, North Dakota on June 26th, 2009. This supercell went through various life cycles as it rolled East towards the City of Grand Forks. This storm was well warned before it hit Grand Forks with sirens sounding about an hour prior. Grand Forks has recently installed new state-of-the-art sirens at the University of North Dakota and you can hear them in the video. They sound eerily awesome. Apparently there were multiple touchdowns in and around the city. There were NO tornadoes. All I noted was a few gustnadoes associated with the bowing segment that moved over the city. False Reports of tornadoes are becoming more numerous around urban centers. This video shows that tornadoes did not touch down in and around Grand Forks on June 26th, 2009. We followed this storm from birth near Lakota to dissipation. We had to constantly stay ahead of the RFD (rear flank downdraft). Severe events associated with this storm were strong straight-lined winds, gustnadoes, and torrential rain...and maybe small hail (in which we did not see)
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