Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Grand Forks, ND

Issued

Aug 14, 2000, 10:57 AM CDT (15:57 UTC)

Expired

Aug 14, 2000, 11:25 AM CDT

In force

28 min

Issued by

NWS Grand Forks, ND

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Polk County, MN

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

440 
WUUS53 KFGF 141557
SVRFAR
MNC119-141625-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
1057 AM CDT MON AUG 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 1125 AM CDT

* AT 1037 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KEY WEST...OR ABOUT 18
  MILES EAST OF GRAND FORKS...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 4797 9696 4779 9669 4783 9649 4806 9676

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NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 14, 10:30 AM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

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

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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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.