Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2000, 3:07 PM CDT for Richland 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 11, 2000, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2000, 3:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Richland County, ND
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 683 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 112008 SVRFAR NDC077-112035- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 307 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 335 PM CDT * AT 305 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF STILES...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAHPETON...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MANTADOR AT 310 PM CDT... HANKINSON AT 315 PM CDT... GREAT BEND AT 325 PM CDT... SONORA AT 330 PM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4623 9717 4605 9717 4603 9663 4625 9666 NNNN 06
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 9:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Benson, Ramsey, Towner | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.