Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2000, 1:48 PM CDT for Hubbard County, Minnesota. It was in force for 32 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, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2000, 2:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 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), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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, 2:04 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Guthrie, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 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.
467
WUUS53 KFGF 141848
SVRFAR
MNC057-141920-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
148 PM CDT MON AUG 14 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN HUBBARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...
* UNTIL 220 PM CDT
* AT 144 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF GUTHRIE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
SOUTH OF BEMIDJI...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
GUTHRIE AT 150 PM CDT...
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.
LAT...LON 4730 9503 4718 9484 4715 9467 4738 9469
4739 9493
$$
DJK
NNNNWhat 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, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 10:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 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
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 14, 1:05 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
105 PM CDT MON AUG 14 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1150 PM 10 N CALVIN ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/13/00 CAVALIER
0420 AM 2 W VALLEY CITY ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 BARNES
0440 AM 4 NW HANNAFORD ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 GRIGGS
0610 AM 3 W DAVENPORT ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 CASS
0650 AM 3 NW ROTHSAY MN .75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 WILKIN
0702 AM PELICAN RAPIDS MN 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 OTTER TAIL
0710 AM 3 N PELICAN RAPIDS MN .75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 OTTER TAIL
0710 AM 5 E PELICAN RAPIDS MN .75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 OTTER TAIL HAIL OCCURED ON
SOUTHEAST SHORE OF
LAKE LIDA
0720 AM DENT MN 1 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 OTTER TAIL
0730 AM 4 NW HANNAFORD ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 GRIGGS
0731 AM 6 S COOPERSTOWN ND 1.25 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 GRIGGS
1100 AM 4 SW EUCLID MN 1.25 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 POLK
1202 PM 1 SE HILLVIEW MN 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 OTTER TAIL
1210 PM SEBEKA MN 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 WADENA
1225 PM 12 N LAKE GEORGE MN .75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 HUBBARD
1234 PM 12 N LAKE GEORGE MN 1 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 HUBBARD
NNNNLocal storm report, Aug 14, 1:39 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
139 PM CDT MON AUG 14 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1256 PM 1 E LAKE ITASCA MN .75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 HUBBARD
0120 PM 7 E LAKE GEORGE MN 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/14/00 HUBBARD
NNNNThe 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, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 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.