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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 25, 2000Hubbard County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2000, 1:48 PM CDT for Hubbard County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 2000, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 2000, 2:20 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Hubbard County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2000-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 795 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2000-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KFGF 251849
SVRFAR
MNC057-251920-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
148 PM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HUBBARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 220 PM CDT

* AT 142 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF LAKE GEORGE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF BEMIDJI...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LAKE GEORGE AT 150 PM CDT...
  KABEKONA AT 155 PM CDT...
  GUTHRIE AT 205 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 800 PM CDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4730 9517 4710 9516 4728 9468 4741 9490

$$
VOELKER
NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFWilkin32 min
Jul 25, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail29 min
Jul 25, 12:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami, Clearwater30 min
Jul 25, 12:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFMahnomen30 min
Jul 25, 1:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker, Clay28 min
Jul 25, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker, Otter Tail28 min
Jul 25, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail31 min
Jul 25, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail28 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.