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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 12:14 AM CDT for Clearwater County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 9, 2000, 12:14 AM CDT (05:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2000, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Clearwater County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 12:30 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Gonvick, 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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.
372 WUUS53 KFGF 090514 SVRFAR MNC029-090545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1214 AM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLEARWATER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA * UNTIL 1245 AM CDT * AT 1212 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER GONVICK...OR ABOUT 34 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEMIDJI...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CLEARBROOK AT 1215 AM CDT REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4784 9561 4766 9559 4766 9520 4784 9524 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk, Red Lake | 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 |
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.