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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 258, NWS Grand Forks, ND

August 22, 1999Richland County, North Dakota; Wilkin County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1999, 10:51 PM CDT for Richland County, North Dakota; Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 1999, 10:51 PM CDT (03:51 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 1999, 11:25 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

Counties Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 22, 11:05 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Wahpeton, ND
Aug 22, 11:20 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Breckenridge, MN

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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 22, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 291 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1999-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 956 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1999-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
956 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 22, 9:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 9:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
915 PM CDT SUN AUG 22 1999

...CONTINUED SEVERE WX IS FORECAST CONCERN...

BUSY NIGHT WITH LINE OF SVR TSRA MOVING THRU CWA. REPORTS OF LARGE
HAIL...STRONG WINDS...TORRENTIAL RAINS AND ONE ISOLATED TOR. SFC
TROF WITH FEW LO CENTERS NOW ALIGNED EAST OF RRV WITH IMPRESSIVE
MOISTURE POOLING ALONG IT (70+ TD/S AND H85 THETA RIDGE UP TO 340K).
BEHIND THIS IS ACTUAL CDFNT WITH SHIFT TO GUSTY NW WIND AND RAPID
DROP IN TD/S WITH FEW MORE ISOLD -TSRA. KMVX 88D SHOWS LINE FROM NEAR
ROX TO NEAR FSE EXTENDING SW TO ND/MN BORDER.

MSAS SHOWS SWATH OF LLVL CAA PUSHING SE THRU ND WITH WEAKER WAA EAST
OF RRV. OVERALL INSTABILITIES...MOISTURE...WAA PROFILE AND CONVERGENCE IN
MN JUST A NOTCH BELOW WHAT IT HAS BEEN IN ERN ND THRU EVE SO EXPECT
LESSENING SVR THREAT...ALTHO AS LINE MOVES THRU ISOLATED WIND/HAIL
EVENTS STILL POSSIBLE. IR LOOP INDICATING STRONG U/L CIRCULATION
SPINNING SE TOWARD KMOT WITH ADDL -SHRA REPORTED THIS EVENING IN
COOLING AIR ALOFT NEAR CYEN. WILL THEREFORE KEEP MENTION OF SCT SHRA
FOR OVERNIGHT PERIOD ESP IN NRN SECTIONS. O/W VARIABLE CLOUDS AS
VORT MAX GENERATES CLOUD COVER AS IT HEADS OUR WAY BEHIND TEMPORARY
CLEARING BEHIND CONVECTION.

WILL CANCEL WATCH FOR ND PART OF CWA AFTER THIS ISSUANCE AND KEEP IT
FOR MN SIDE ATTM. THEREFORE WILL UPDATE ND ZONES NOW AND BRIEFLY
HOLD OFF FOR MN AND UPDATE LATER AS LINE MOVES THRU. NO CHANGES
EXPECTED TO TEMPS/WINDS FOR OVERNIGHT PENDING LAST MINUTE REVIEW.

.FGF...SVR TSTM WATCH 652 UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR CLAY...PENNINGTON...
KITTSON...POLK...RED LAKE...MARSHALL...NORMAN...ROSEAU...WILKIN.

SVR TSTM WATCH 653 UNTIL 1 AM CDT FOR REST OF MN CWA.

SOROKA

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 22, 9:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030-038-039-049-052-053-230225-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
915 PM CDT SUN AUG 22 1999

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...

A TROF OF LOW PRESSURE THAT MOVED ACROSS THE STATE AND TRIGGERED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS EDGED JUST EAST OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY. AS
SUCH...THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS
ENDED. A FEW MORE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ANOTHER RUMBLE OF THUNDER
ARE STILL POSSIBLE DURING THE REST OF THE NIGHT AS AN UPPER
LEVEL DISTURBANCE SWINGS INTO EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...BUT NO
ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED.

SOROKA
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 9:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030-038-039-049-052-053-230225-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
915 PM CDT SUN AUG 22 1999

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...

A TROF OF LOW PRESSURE THAT MOVED ACROSS THE STATE AND TRIGGERED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS EDGED JUST EAST OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY. AS
SUCH...THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA HAS
ENDED. A FEW MORE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ANOTHER RUMBLE OF THUNDER
ARE STILL POSSIBLE DURING THE REST OF THE NIGHT AS AN UPPER
LEVEL DISTURBANCE SWINGS INTO EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...BUT NO
ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED.

SOROKA
Local storm report, Aug 22, 9:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFCass33 min
Aug 22, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRed Lake33 min
Aug 22, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker32 min
Aug 22, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFOtter Tail35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1999Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

Sources

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.