Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2000, 12:35 PM CDT for Clearwater County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 14, 2000, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2000, 1:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Clearwater County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:39 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, 12:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Lake Itasca, MN | |
| Aug 14, 12:56 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Becida, 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
089 WUUS53 KFGF 141735 SVRFAR MNC029-141805- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1235 PM CDT MON AUG 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CLEARWATER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 105 PM CDT * AT 1234 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF ZERKEL...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEMIDJI...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE ITASCA AT 1245 PM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4739 9542 4722 9553 4716 9520 4735 9520 $$ 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 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 10:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 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, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 28 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.