Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2000, 12:12 AM CDT for Beltrami County, Clearwater County, Minnesota. 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
- May 6, 2000, 12:12 AM CDT (05:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2000, 12:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Beltrami County, MN, Clearwater County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:16 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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 497 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 060512 SVRFAR MNC007-029-060540- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1212 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BELTRAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA NORTHWESTERN CLEARWATER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1240 AM CDT * AT 1211 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SEVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF BERNER...OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THIEF RIVER FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN CLEARWATER COUNTY CENTRAL BELTRAMI COUNTY DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORNADOES ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. LAT...LON 4794 9565 4779 9549 4802 9496 4820 9515 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall, Roseau | 33 min |
| May 5, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall, Roseau | 46 min |
| May 5, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 42 min |
| May 5, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 42 min |
| May 5, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 37 min |
| May 5, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 32 min |
| May 5, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 30 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.