Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2000, 10:19 AM CDT for Becker County, Hubbard County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports 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, 10:19 AM CDT (15:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2000, 10:50 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Becker County, MN, Hubbard County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:22 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, 10:45 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Two Inlets, MN | |
| Aug 14, 11:00 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Park Rapids, 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 231 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.
519 WUUS53 KFGF 141520 SVRFAR MNC005-057-141550- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1019 AM CDT MON AUG 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HUBBARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... EASTERN BECKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 1050 AM CDT * AT 1017 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MANY POINT LAKE...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MANY POINT LAKE AT 1020 AM CDT... BAD MEDICINE LAKE AT 1025 AM CDT... PONSFORD AT 1030 AM CDT... OSAGE AT 1035 AM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4712 9572 4695 9562 4684 9503 4716 9481 $$ DJK 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, 10:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 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.