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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2000, 12:32 PM CDT for Hubbard County, Minnesota. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report 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, 12:32 PM CDT (17:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 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), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 1:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Laporte, 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
205 WUUS53 KFGF 141732 SVRFAR MNC057-141800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1232 PM CDT MON AUG 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HUBBARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 100 PM CDT * AT 1229 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER KABEKONA...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF BEMIDJI...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAPORTE AT 1235 PM CDT... BENEDICT AT 1240 PM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4738 9512 4717 9515 4710 9446 4730 9440 $$ JEB NNNN
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, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 10:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail, Wilkin | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 7:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 8:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 9:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 9:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 9:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Hubbard | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 10:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 10:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Hubbard | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 10:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 10:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 10:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 10:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 11:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 11:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 11:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 11:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Otter Tail, Wadena | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater, Hubbard | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.