Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2000, 9:49 PM CDT for Barnes County, North Dakota. It was in force for 41 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 15, 2000, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Barnes County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 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 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 160250 SVRFAR NDC003-160330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 949 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BARNES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF VALLEY CITY * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 945 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WIMBLEDON...OR ABOUT 33 MILES NORTHWEST OF VALLEY CITY...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WIMBLEDON AT 955 PM CDT... LEAL AT 1005 PM CDT... ROGERS AT 1010 PM CDT... ECKELSON AT 1015 PM CDT... VALLEY CITY AT 1020 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 100 AM CDT SATURDAY NIGHT FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4728 9846 4721 9872 4667 9834 4699 9788 NNNN
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, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Ramsey | 46 min |
| Jul 15, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 31 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.