Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Grand Forks, ND

Issued

Sep 8, 1997, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)

Expired

Sep 8, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT

In force

38 min

Issued by

NWS Grand Forks, ND

Area

Whole counties

Counties Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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TTAA00 KFAR 082123 RRA
SVRFAR
MNC167-NDC077-082200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
422 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...SOUTHWEST WILKIN COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN RICHLAND COUNTY
 
AT 420 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE TOWN OF
FAIRMOUNT NORTH DAKOTA OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAHPETON. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WIL LAFFECT THE CITIES OF
FAIRMOUNT AND TENNEY THROUGH 445 PM CDT.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING.
IF A STRONG BUILDING IS NOT AVAILABLE...GET INTO A DEPRESSION
AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.  BE AWARE OF RISING WATER.

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 8, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
300 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997

FCST PD CONCERN FOR TONIGHT WL BE TIMING/EXTENT OF LO CLD MOVG S INTO
CWA.  SFC ANAL SHOWS FRONT HAS ALMOST CLRD CWA...BUT KMVX 88D STILL
SHOWS A FEW -SHRA FORMING ACRS EXTRM SERN CORNER OF ND AS H5 S/W SWINGS
THRU. ETA GRIB SHOWS AN ASSOCIATED BROAD AREA OF MID LEVEL INSTABILITY
OVR SRN PORTION OF CWA WHICH PUSHES SLOWLY TO THE SE...MOVG OUT OF OUR
AREA BY 06Z.  EXPCT THAT BY ISSUANCE TIME LINGERING -SHRA OVR EXTRM SRN
PTN OF CWA WILL BE MOVING OUT...CAN HANDLE ANY STRAGGLERS VIA NOWCAST.

FOR TONIGHT...12Z ETA HAS COME AROUND TO NGM THINKING AS IT IS MORE
AGGRESSIVE IN BRINGING LO LVL MOISTURE/COLD AIR INTO CWA. SAT LOOP
SHOWS ADVANCING EDGE OF CU/SC WORKING SOUTH ACROSS CANADIAN BORDER INTO
NRN ND.  CU RULES ON 12Z ETA LINES UP WELL WITH SAT LOOP SHOWG ADVANCING
CLOUDS. DESPITE LOSS OF HEATING...STILL FAIR AMT OF MOISTURE/CLDS
PUSHING SOUTH TONIGHT ACRS CWA...DOWN RRV AND ACRS NWRN MN.  JUST
LOOKING AHD TO TOMORROW...CU RULES ON BOTH NGM AND ETA SHOW MSTLY CLDY
OVR MUCH OF CWA...ESPECIALLY NWRN MN.

SUGGESTIONS FOR ND:  DVL...MOSTLY CLOUDY.  LOW UPPR 40S-LOWER 50S.  NW
WIND 15 TO 25 MPH DMSHG TO 5 TO 15 MPH THIS EVENING.
//FOR GFK...FAR FEEL THAT BY TIME MID AND UPR CLD SHIELD RETREATS LO CLD
WL BE MOVG IN//  GFK/FAR...MOSTLY CLDY.  LOW IN THE LOWER 50S.  NW WIND
10-20 MP8H THIS EVE DMSHG TO 10 MPH.

SUGGESTIONS FOR MN:  EXPCT LO CLDS TO START PUSHING SOUTH THIS
EVE...WITH ALL EXCPT WILKIN...OTTER TAIL...WADENA...GRANT COUNTIES
MOSTLY CLDY BY MORNING.  LOWS FAIRLY UNIFORM IN LOWER 50S.

STRAGER

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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.