Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2000, 10:04 AM CDT for Clearwater County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 14, 2000, 10:04 AM CDT (15:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2000, 10:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Clearwater County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:07 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 10:15 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Zerkel, MN |
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 nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
675 WUUS53 KFGF 141504 SVRFAR MNC029-141535- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1004 AM CDT MON AUG 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CLEARWATER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 1035 AM CDT * AT 1002 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOWER RICE LAKE...OR ABOUT 32 MILES NORTH OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LONG LOST LAKE AT 1010 AM CDT... ZERKEL AT 1015 AM CDT... ALIDA AT 1020 AM CDT... LAKE ITASCA AT 1025 AM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4737 9552 4717 9553 4717 9521 4742 9523 $$ KELLENBENZ NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail, Wilkin | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 7:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 8:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 9:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 9:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 9:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Hubbard | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 10:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Hubbard | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 10:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 10:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 10:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 10:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 11:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 11:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 11:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 11:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail, Wadena | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Hubbard | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.