Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Grand Forks, ND

Issued

Jul 7, 2000, 7:05 AM CDT (12:05 UTC)

Expired

Jul 7, 2000, 7:35 AM CDT

In force

30 min

Issued by

NWS Grand Forks, ND

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Benson County, ND

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.

000 
WUUS53 KFGF 071205
SVRFAR
NDC005-071235-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
705 AM CDT FRI JUL 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BENSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 735 AM CDT

* AT 703 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FILLMORE...OR ABOUT 46   
MILES WEST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BAKER AT 715 AM CDT...
  HARLOW AT 720 AM CDT...

REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 4816 10006 4798 9997 4813 9949 4832 9966

NNNN

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 7, 3:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
350 AM CDT FRI JUL 7 2000

FCST CHALLLENGE...SVR THREAT THIS AM. ADDN TSTMS TNGT.

NEAR TERM...TSTMS ROUNDING THE THICKNESS RIDGE IN SRN MAN ARE
BEGINNING TO DROP SEWD TOWARD NRN MN...WHILE ADDN CONVECTION
DEVELOPS ACROSS THE RRV INTO NW MN...AND ALG THE SFC BNDRY FM SRN
MAN INTO ERN MT. 00Z ETA AND 06Z MESOETA MAINTAIN FAIR AMOUNT OF
INSTABILITY ACRS THE CWFA TDY WITH GOOD DEEP LAYER SHEAR THROUGHTHE
MORNING HOURS. POSSIBLE BOWECHO FORMATION OCCURRING EAST OF MOT AND
MOVING INTO NERN ND. 90+KT H3 JET STREAK EVIDENT LIFTING FM MLS INTO
ISN ATTM PROVIDING DANGEROUS KICK TO ANY ACTIVITY. WILL NEED TO
CLOSELY WATCH ANY DEVELOPMENT...WITH BIGGEST THREAT ACROSS NCNTRL
AND NERN ND THIS AM. MODELS CONTINUE TO FCST PCPN DEVELOPING DOWN
INTO THE RRV AND NW MN THROUGH TDY...SO WILL KEEP POPS IN SCT TO
LIKELY REALM TDY AND TNGT. WILL DROP FFW SINCE STORMS ARE MOVING
RAPIDLY WITH GOOD STEERING FLOW. LOCAL RAINS MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES
BUT TRAINING ECHOS ARE NOT LIKELY. WILL NEED TO WATCH SITUATION IF
MULTIPLE ECHO PASSES SEEMS A POSSIBILITY.

MID TERM...ETA DRIVES NEXT VORT ACROSS SRN ZONES ON SAT WHILE
KEEPING NORTHERN ZONES ON DRIER NORTH END OF WEAK BOUNDARY. FOR NOW
THIS SEEMS LIKE A REASONABLE DEPICTION WITH SOME AGREEMENT FM NGM.
AVN STAYS DRY.

EXTENDED...NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK AT EXTENDED. WILL STAY WITH
PREVIOUS PACKAGE.

.FGF...NONE.

GUST

q

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.