Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2000, 12:00 PM CDT for Roseau County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 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 28, 2000, 12:00 PM CDT (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2000, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Roseau County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 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 28, 12:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Greenbush, 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 419 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 281703 COR SVRFAR MNC135-281730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED SPEED OF MOVEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1200 PM CDT MON AUG 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROSEAU COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ROSEAU * UNTIL 1230 PM CDT * AT 1158 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF GREENBUSH...OR ABOUT 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROSEAU...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BADGER AT 1205 PM CDT... ROSEAU AT 1:215 PM CDT... SALOL AT 1225 PM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4868 9636 4855 9616 4883 9535 4895 9539 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 28 min |
| Aug 28, 10:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 32 min |
| Aug 28, 10:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 28 min |
| Aug 28, 11:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall | 31 min |
| Aug 28, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 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.