Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2000, 7:57 PM CDT for Nelson County, North Dakota. It was in force for 28 min. 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
- Jul 4, 2000, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2000, 8:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Nelson County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 050058 SVRFAR NDC035-063-050127- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 757 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME WEST CENTRAL GRAND FORKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA SOUTHERN NELSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 825 PM CDT * AT 752 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES EAST OF PEKIN...OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MCVILLE AT 800 PM CDT... WIND GUwSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4787 9840 4770 9834 4776 9788 4798 9788 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 31 min |
| Jul 4, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 32 min |
| Jul 4, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 32 min |
| Jul 4, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 30 min |
| Jul 4, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 12:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 1:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 5 hr |
| Jul 5, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 29 min |
Nearby
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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.