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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2000, 1:59 AM CDT for Ransom County, Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2000, 1:59 AM CDT (06:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2000, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:02 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 609 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1076 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KFGF 200704 FFWFGF NDC073-077-200900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 159 AM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA RANSOM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 4 AM CDT * AT 157 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CHRISTINE TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GALCHUTT OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 19 MILES SOUTH OF FARGO TO 13 MILES WEST OF WAHPETON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * ENDERLIN...SHELDON...ANSELM...AND VENLO WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN. ADDITIONAL RAIN AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED OVER NORTHERN RICHLAND AND EASTERN RANSON COUNTIES. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVEp YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. ONE OR TWO FEET OF WATER WILL FLOAT MOST CARS DOWNSTREAM. LAT...LON 4663 9766 4630 9767 4631 9673 4659 9682 $$ HOPPES NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cass | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 7:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Steele, Traill | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Cass | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 10:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland | 4 hr |
| Jun 19, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 29 min |
| Jun 19, 10:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Cass, Traill | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 3 hr |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.