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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Grand Forks, ND

August 28, 2000Kittson County, Minnesota; Pembina County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2000, 10:18 AM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota; Pembina County, North Dakota. 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 28, 2000, 10:18 AM CDT (15:18 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2000, 10:50 AM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Kittson County, MN, Pembina County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 28, 10:30 AM CDTHail 1St Thomas, ND
Aug 28, 10:35 AM CDTHail 0.75Kennedy, MN
Aug 28, 10:55 AM CDTHail 0.75Drayton, ND

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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 328 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2000-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 533 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2000-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 189 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
533 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-391 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
375 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFGF 281521
SVRFAR
MNC069-NDC067-281550-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
1018 AM CDT MON AUG 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PEMBINA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...
  KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 1050 AM CDT

* AT 1014 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF CRYSTAL...OR ABOUT 12 MILES 
  NORTHWEST OF GRAFTON...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* AT 1014 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF KENNEDY..OR 55  
  MILES WEST OF ROSEAU...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ST. THOMAS AT 1025 AM CDT...
  BOWESMONT AND LAKE BRONSON AT 1040 AM CDT...
  KENNEDY AT 1045 AM CDT...
  HALLOCK AT 1050 AM CDT...

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

LAT...LON 4857 9776 4857 9744 4866 9675 4886 9689

NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 9:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFKittson28 min
Aug 28, 10:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFKittson28 min
Aug 28, 11:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFKittson, Marshall31 min
Aug 28, 12:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRoseau30 min
Aug 28, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami, Clearwater31 min
Aug 28, 5:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBenson, Eddy58 min
Aug 28, 6:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBenson, Ramsey45 min
Aug 28, 6:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFEddy31 min
Aug 28, 6:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFNelson, Walsh31 min
Aug 28, 6:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBenson, Eddy, Nelson, Ramsey46 min
Aug 28, 6:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFWalsh46 min
Aug 28, 7:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCavalier45 min
Aug 28, 7:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFTowner30 min
Aug 28, 8:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCavalier32 min
Aug 28, 8:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRamsey32 min
Aug 28, 8:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCavalier, Walsh32 min
Aug 28, 9:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPembina31 min
Aug 28, 10:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFWalsh30 min
Aug 28, 10:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFWalsh32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.