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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 205, NWS Grand Forks, ND

August 14, 2000Hubbard County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2000, 10:48 AM CDT for Hubbard County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 14, 2000, 10:48 AM CDT (15:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 2000, 11:20 AM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hubbard County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:47 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 14, 11:00 AM CDTHail 0.75Park 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, 3.8 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 2000-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2000-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 191 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 14, 10:30 AM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 10:30 AM CDT, 18 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
1029 AM MON AUG 14 2000

WILL BE BRIEF DUE TO ONGOING SVR WX. SFC WARM FRONT LIFTING INTO THE
SRN FA THIS AM AS SFC LOW CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST ALONG SD/ND BORDER.
LI/S OF -8 COVER MUCH OF THE FA PER NEW ETA...WITH SHOWALTERS AS LOW
AS -6. ATMOSPHERE WILL NOT STABILIZE OVER THE RRV AND POINTS EAST
THUS EXPECT TSRA ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE. WILL TWEAK ZFP TO COVER THIS.

OTHERWISE NOT TIME TO LOOK AT MUCH...WILL MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS AS
NEEDED.

.FGF...NONE.

RJT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 6:20 AM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052>054-141400-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
620 AM CDT MON AUG 14 2000

...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON
ACROSS MAINLY WEST-CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA...

SYNOPSIS...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF A EASTWARD ADVANCING
TROUGH WILL SPREAD EAST OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INTO MINNESOTA LATER
THIS MORNING.

AREA OF CONCERN...MAINLY FROM THE RED RIVER VALLEY EAST.

TIME...GREATEST THREAT INTO EARLY AFTERNOON.

HAZARD...MAINLY DAMAGING WINDS ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL.

BERG

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCavalier, Towner43 min
Aug 14, 1:14 AM CDTTornado WarningFGFPembina, Walsh31 min
Aug 14, 3:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBarnes45 min
Aug 14, 4:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGriggs, Steele43 min
Aug 14, 4:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBarnes, Cass46 min
Aug 14, 5:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCass32 min
Aug 14, 5:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCass30 min
Aug 14, 7:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGriggs29 min
Aug 14, 7:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFSteele, Traill32 min
Aug 14, 9:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFTraill32 min
Aug 14, 6:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wilkin28 min
Aug 14, 7:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail31 min
Aug 14, 8:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFNorman32 min
Aug 14, 9:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker30 min
Aug 14, 9:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFNorman32 min
Aug 14, 9:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFMahnomen31 min
Aug 14, 9:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker, Hubbard28 min
Aug 14, 10:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClearwater31 min
Aug 14, 10:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker, Hubbard31 min
Aug 14, 10:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker, Clay31 min
Aug 14, 10:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail29 min
Aug 14, 10:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPolk28 min
Aug 14, 11:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker28 min
Aug 14, 11:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFMahnomen28 min
Aug 14, 11:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClearwater29 min
Aug 14, 11:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail, Wadena32 min
Aug 14, 11:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClearwater, Hubbard31 min
Aug 14, 12:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFHubbard28 min
Aug 14, 12:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClearwater30 min
Aug 14, 12:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFHubbard32 min
Aug 14, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFHubbard32 min
Aug 14, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami28 min
Aug 14, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFLake of the Woods47 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.