Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2000, 2:53 AM CDT for Nelson County, Walsh County, North Dakota. 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2000, 2:53 AM CDT (07:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2000, 3:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Nelson County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1703 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 060754 SVRFAR NDC063-099-060825- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 253 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN NELSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA SOUTHWESTERN WALSH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 325 AM CDT * AT 251 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SEVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF MAPES...OR ABOUT 32 MILES EAST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WHITMAN AT 300 AM CDT LANKIN AT 305 AM CDT REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4808 9837 4796 9818 4830 9779 4829 9809 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Nelson | 42 min |
| May 5, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Nelson, Steele | 42 min |
| May 5, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 42 min |
| May 5, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs | 40 min |
| May 5, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Steele | 33 min |
| May 6, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Eddy | 30 min |
| May 6, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ramsey | 30 min |
| May 6, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Ramsey | 29 min |
| May 6, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Pembina | 45 min |
| May 6, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ramsey | 28 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.