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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Grand Forks, ND

August 14, 2000Otter Tail County, Wadena County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2000, 11:53 AM CDT for Otter Tail County, Wadena County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 min. 3 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, 11:53 AM CDT (16:53 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 2000, 12:25 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Otter Tail County, MN, Wadena County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 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, 12:02 PM CDTHail 1.75Hillview, MN
Aug 14, 12:10 PM CDTHail 1.75Sebeka, MN
Aug 14, 12:10 PM CDTHail 1.75Wadena, 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 238 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2000-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2292 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2000-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

790 
WUUS53 KFGF 141653
SVRFAR
MNC111-159-141725-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
1153 AM CDT MON AUG 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN WADENA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA...  
  NORTHEASTERN OTTER TAIL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 1225 PM CDT

* AT 1148 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF HILLVIEW...OR ABOUT 32 MILES
  EAST OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SEBEKA AT NOON CDT...
  HUNTERSVILLE AT 1210 PM CDT...

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

LAT...LON 4667 9537 4648 9513 4677 9488 4679 9513
          4673 9513
$$
DJK
NNNN

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, 11:07 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, 11:59 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.