Alert archive / North Dakota / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this flash flood warning at Sep 2, 2000, 4:44 PM CDT for Clay County, Minnesota; Cass County, Ransom County, Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 4 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
- Sep 2, 2000, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clay County, MN, Cass County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KFGF 022149
FFWFGF
MNC027-NDC017-073-077-030200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
444 PM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
SOUTHEASTERN CASS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF FARGO/MOORHEAD
EASTERN RANSOM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
NORTHWESTERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 442 PM CDT...RADAR REPORTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN
CONTINUE TO MOVE ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR LISBON THROUGH FARGO ON TO
NEAR HITTERDAL.
* ANSELM...BARRIE...CHAFFEE...KINDRED...AND FARGO WILL BE AFFECTED
BY THE HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR WILL
BE MOVING ACROSS THE ABOVE MENTIONED AREAS DURING THE EARLY
EVENING HOURS. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 4 TO 6 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ON A
LINE FROM LISBON THROUGH SHELDON...TO FARGO/MOORHEAD ON TO
THE ULEN/FELTON AREAS THIS EVENING.
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR
VEHICLE INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. ONE OR TWO FEET OF WATER WILL
FLOAT MOST CARS DOWNSTREAM.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING
ARE HARD TO RECOGNIZE.
LAT...LON 4664 9768 4641 9741 4666 9678 4665 9619
4715 9623 4712 9696
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 28 min |
| Sep 2, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 28 min |
| Sep 2, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clearwater | 29 min |
| Sep 2, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 29 min |
| Sep 2, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 34 min |
| Sep 2, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 29 min |
| Sep 2, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland | 28 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in North Dakota, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Minnesota, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000
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.