Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 258, NWS Grand Forks, ND
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 11:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Wahpeton, ND | |
| Aug 22, 11:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Breckenridge, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Red Lake | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 32 min |
| Aug 22, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 35 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.