Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2000, 7:59 PM CDT for Benson County, Ramsey County, North Dakota. It was in force for 46 min. 4 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2000, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Benson County, ND, Ramsey County, ND
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 8:02 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Churchs Ferry, ND | |
| Jul 15, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Penn, ND | A tornado destroyed the attached garage of a house, damaged a semi truck, and destroyed a grain dryer. |
| Jul 15, 8:13 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Minnewaukan, ND | |
| Jul 15, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Devils Lake, ND | A brief touchdown was reported by a state patrol officer. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 2954 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 160103 SVRFAR NDC005-071-160145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 759 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BENSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... RAMSEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DEVILS LAKE * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 754 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM GARSKE...20 MILES NORTH OF DEVILS LAKE...TO 10 MILES WEST OF MINNEWAUKAN...OR 20 MILES WEST OF DEVILS LAKE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WEBSTER AT 805 PM... MINNEWAUKAN AT 810 PM CDT... DEVILS LAKE AT 820 PM... SOUTHAM AT 835 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 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4826 9963 4790 9935 4813 9843 4851 9846 NNNN B
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ramsey, Towner | 32 min |
| Jul 15, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 31 min |
| Jul 15, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.