Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Grand Forks, ND

Issued

Jun 27, 1997, 9:31 PM CDT (02:31 UTC)

Expired

Jun 27, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT

In force

44 min

Issued by

NWS Grand Forks, ND

Area

Whole counties

County Beltrami County, MN

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 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.

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WUUS1 KFAR 280232 RRA
SVRFAR
MNC007-280315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
931 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...SOUTHERN BELTRAMI COUNTY
 
AT 930 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR THE
TOWN OF RED LAKE...OR 25 MILES NORTH OF BEMIDJI. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE CITIES OF ISLAND
LAKE...NEBISH...AND BLACKDUCK.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INTO A STRONG BUILDING.
DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
 
STRAGER

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 8:53 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
850 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 1997

HAVE NOT HAD ALOT OF TIME TO LOOK AT ANY RAPID UPDATE MODELS WITH
SEVERE WX. SFC FRONT FROM NW TIP OF MN TO BETWEEN BIS AND JMS SHOWING
VERY SLOW EASTWARD MOVEMENT AND PROGS KEEP BOUNDARY NEARLY STATIONARY
OVERNIGHT. AIRMASS AHEAD OF FRONT VERY UNSTABLE WITH ADAP LI'S TO -10
AND SFC TD'S AOB 70. 00Z INL SOUNDING HAD A B+ AROUND 3000 J/KG. ALSO
INL SOUNDING HAD K INDEX OF 34...PWAT 1.36 ALONG WITH GOOD THICKNESS
DIFLUENCE OVER MN. ALSO RESPECTABLE MOIST CONVERGENC JUST EAST OF
BOUNDARY. WILL KEEP FLASH FLOOD WATCH GOING ALONG WITH CHC OF TSRA. ONLY
Q4UESTIONABLE AREA IS IN DVL WHICH IS BEHIND FRONT. WILL SPLIT OFF AREA
AND DROP CHC OF TSRA. TEMPS SEEM IN THE BALL PARK...WILL TAKE A LAST
LOOK AT UPDATE TIME. WILL PROBABLY HOLD OFF ON UPDATE TILL FIRST WATCH
AREA EXPIRES.
VOELKER

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 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.