Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Grand Forks, ND

Issued

Jun 28, 1997, 11:02 AM CDT (16:02 UTC)

Expired

Jun 28, 1997, 11:30 AM CDT

In force

28 min

Issued by

NWS Grand Forks, ND

Area

Whole counties

County Richland County, ND

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

199 
WUUS1 KFAR 281603 RRA
SVRFAR
NDC077-281630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
1102 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...RICHLAND COUNTY
 
AT 1100 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF
WAHPETOM AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE THIS
DANGEROUS STORM ARE MOORETOWN...AND WAHPETON. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY
PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH
DEADLY LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SAFE
SHELTER NOW.
 
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
KENNEDY

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 28, 10:08 AM CDT, 54 minutes earlier.

FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
1007 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997

SVR WX KEEPING US HOPPING...NO TIME TO GET INTO DATA.  CURRENT SVR TSTM
WATCH BOX STILL LOOKING GOOD AS SVRL AREAS OF TSTMS DVLPG.  WATCH BOX
AREA STILL HAS GOOD POOLING OF DWPTS ALG WITH SVRL BOUNDARIES FROM PRVS
CONVECTION...SHOULD KEEP US BUSY FOR NXT SVRL HOURS.  OTHER CONCERN IS
FLASH FLOOD WATCH AREA.  WE EXTENDED WATCH TO COVER W CNTRL MN WHERE
CONVECTION IS PRESENTLY FIRING AND WHERE 3 HR FFG SHOWS 2 INCHES OR
LESS.  ZONES LOOK GOOD FOR NOW...NO BIG CHANGES PLANNED.

STRAGER

In the hours before

MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052-053-291200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
630 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997

..THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA STARTING THIS
AFTERNOON...

AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE...CENTERED IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...HAS AN
ASSOCIATED WARM FRONT WHICH EXTENDS ACROSS CENTRAL MINNESOTA.  THIS LOW
WILL REMAIN FAIRLY STATIONARY TODAY...PROVIDING PLENTY OF MOISTURE TO
THE REGION AND THE WARM FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT. AS A RESULT...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A NEW ROCKFORD TO GRAND FORKS TO BEMIDJI LINE
TODAY AND TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN SEVERE
WEATHER THREATS.

IN ADDITION...THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES THROUGH TODAY
WITH A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN
NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.  THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH
INCLUDES THE CITIES OF WAHPETON...VALLEY CITY...MAYVILLE...GARND
FORKS...THIEF RIVER FALLS...BEMIDJI AND CROOKSTON.

AN UPDATED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED THIS AFTERNOON IF
CONDITIONS WARRANT.

NG

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.