Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 12:04 AM CDT for Polk County, Red Lake 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
- Jun 9, 2000, 12:04 AM CDT (05:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2000, 12:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 12:05 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Crookston, MN | Hail completely covered the ground. |
| Jun 9, 12:30 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Red Lake Falls, 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 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 1351 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 090505 SVRFAR MNC119-125-090535- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1204 AM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RED LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA CENTRAL AND EASTERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1235 AM CDT * AT 1201 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF FISHER...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF GRAND FORKS...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DOROTHY AT 1215 AM CDT RED LAKE FALLS AT 1225 AM CDT TERREBONNE AT 1230 AM CDT PLUMMER AT 1235 AM CDT REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4792 9685 4774 9679 4784 9592 4796 9593 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 2:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall | 31 min |
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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.