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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Grand Forks, ND

August 14, 2000Becker County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2000, 11:07 AM CDT for Becker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 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, 11:07 AM CDT (16:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 2000, 11:35 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Becker County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:08 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 14, 11:30 AM CDTHail 1.75Wolf Lake, 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 254 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
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, 10:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFHubbard32 min
Aug 14, 10:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPolk28 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.