Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 11:35 AM CDT for Pennington County, Red Lake County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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
- Jul 7, 2000, 11:35 AM CDT (16:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2000, 12:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pennington County, MN, Red Lake County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 12:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Hazel, MN | |
| Jul 7, 12:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | High Lndg, MN |
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 nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 7, 10:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 10:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 1030 AM CDT FRI JUL 7 2000 -14C TEMP REPORTED AT 500 HPA ACRS SRN MAN WHICH IS COOLER THAN MODELS HAVE FCST. SAME AT 700 AND 850 HPA. COOLER AIR THAN XPCD IS CREATING TSRA ACRS CWFA. 88D HAS TSRA OVR GFK COUNTY AND BELTRAMI MOVG E. WL KEEP CHC TSRA FOR TDY. WL CHECK ZONES. .FGF...NONE. HOPPES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 10:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 29 min |
| Jul 7, 11:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 29 min |
| Jul 7, 12:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Pennington | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 12:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 29 min |
| Jul 7, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 32 min |
| Jul 7, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 43 min |
| Jul 7, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grant | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2000Every severe thunderstorm 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.