Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2000, 12:35 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Clearwater County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 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 25, 2000, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2000, 1:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 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), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 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 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 795 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 251736 SVRFAR WUUS53 KFGF 251735 MNC007-029-251805- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1235 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BELTRAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... CLEARWATER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 105 PM CDT * AT 1227 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF DEBS...OR ABOUT 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEMIDJI...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DEBS AT 1240 PM CDT... ISLAND LAKE AT 105 PM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4778 9541 4765 9522 4790 9481 4806 9504 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 32 min |
| Jul 25, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 29 min |
| Jul 25, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 30 min |
| Jul 25, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay | 28 min |
| Jul 25, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 32 min |
| Jul 25, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Otter Tail | 28 min |
| Jul 25, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 31 min |
| Jul 25, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 28 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.