Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1999, 5:04 AM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 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
- Jun 9, 1999, 5:04 AM CDT (10:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1999, 5:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kittson County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 5:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster, MN | Trees were blown down in Lancaster. |
| Jun 9, 5:40 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Karlstad, MN | The roof on an apartment building was lifted up 4 feet before settling back down. Numerous trees were blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jun 9, 2:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 245 AM CDT WED JUN 09 1999 STRONG/SVR CONVECTION CONTINUING ACROSS FA ALONG EASTWARD MOVING COLD FRONT AND DOWNSTREAM WITH STRONG INSTABILITY...HIGH CAPE AND 40 TO 50KT LLJ. MODELS IN A LITTLE BETTER AGREEMENT THIS RUN. CONSIDERING PAST HISTORY WILL CONTINUE TO LEAN TOWARDS THE ETA. CURRENTLY COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO WESTERN CWA. FRONT CROSSES THE RED RIVER INTO WESTERN MN AROUND 18Z AND EVENTUALLY THROUGH EASTERN FA AROUND 03Z. ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY LAYER MOIST CONVERGENCE...H8 THETA-E RIDGE...MOIST TRANSPORT ALSO SHIFTS EAST. BY LATE AFTERNOON EASTERN THIRD OF MY FA REMAINS EAST OF COLD FRONT AND COULD STILL BE UNDER THE GUN FOR STRONG TSRA IN AGREEMENT WITH SPC OUTLOOK ALTHOUGH GREATEST INSTABILITY/CAPES WILL BE SOUTH OF FA. ELSEWHERE BEHIND COLD FRONT GOOD SUBS AND DRYING NOTED FROM AREA TIME SECTIONS WHICH CONTINUES THROUGH PERIOD. MID LEVEL TROUGH LIFTS NORTHEAST REPLACED BY MORE ZONAL FLOW. WK CAA DURING DAY WITH ANOTHER SHOT OF CAA OVERNIGHT WITH PSBL SECONDARY COLD FRONT ACROSS MAINLY NORTHERN AREAS. COOLER TEMPS BEHIND CFP REFLECTED WELL BY BOTH FAN/FW C GUIDANCE AND GENERALLY FOLLOWED. .FGF...SVR TSTM WATCH ALL OF CWFA UNTIL 7 AM. VOELKER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:41 AM CDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
440 AM CDT WED JUN 08 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1205 AM LAKOTA ND 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/09/99 NELSON REPORTED BY LAKOTA PD
1208 AM LAKOTA ND 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/09/99 NELSON REPORTED BY LAKOTA PD
109 AM GRAFTON ND 0.25 INCH HAIL
06/09/99 WALSH
120 AM 5S ALVARADO MN FUNNEL CLOUD
06/09/99 POLK REPORTED BY PUBLIC
244 AM 5SW DRAYTON ND TORNADO
06/09/99 WALSH REPORTED BY PUBLIC
305 AM 2W GRAFTON ND 0.25 INCH HAIL
06/09/99 WALSH
312 AM 5W DRAYTON ND 2 FUNNEL CLOUDS
06/09/99 PEMBINA
314 AM HALLOCK MN 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/09/99 KITTSON REPORTED BY HAM SPOTTERSpecial weather statement, Jun 9, 4:53 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
NDZ027-091010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 453 AM CDT WED JUN 9 1999 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN GRAND FORKS COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 448 AM CDT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED NORTHEAST INTO WESTERN POLK COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EASTERN GRAND FORKS COUNTY...HOWEVER THESE STORMS ARE BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. ( TURNER
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:56 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
NDZ030-091015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 456 AM CDT WED JUN 9 1999 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TRAILL COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 454: AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND WAS NO LONGER SEVERE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TRAILL COUNTY HAS THEREFORE BEEN CANCELLED. TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Towner | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Towner | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Traill | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pembina | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 4:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 5:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk, Red Lake | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Mahnomen | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Hubbard | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Hubbard | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Hubbard | 31 min |
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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.