Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2000, 3:09 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Clearwater County, Minnesota. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 2000, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2000, 3:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Beltrami County, MN, Clearwater County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 356 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
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
047 WUUS53 KFGF 282010 SVRFAR MNC007-029-282040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 309 PM CDT MON AUG 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN BELTRAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHERN CLEARWATER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 340 PM CDT * AT 304 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEBS...OR ABOUT 34 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEMIDJI...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DEBS AT 315 PM CDT... ISLAND LAKE AT 325 PM CDT... NEBISH AT 335 PM CDT... EXPECT STRONG WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4794 9551 4765 9540 4769 9463 4807 9489 $$ DJK 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 28, 10:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 10:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1030 AM CDT MON AUG 28 2000 GOOD HGT 500 HPA RISE-FALL COUPLET TO THE W OVR MT AND WA. RELATIVELY COLD 500 HPA TEMPS WERE TO THE W AND FCST TO MOV INTO NW COUNTIES THIS AFTN. SW-NE UPR LVL JET PUNCHING INTO THE AREA WITH STORMS FIRING UNDER AND IN THE LFQ. WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWING DARK BAND MOVG IN FM THE SW. PLENTY OF MSTR AVAILABLE WITH 330+K 850 HPA THETA-E AIR ACRS MUCH OF CWFA. DRIER AND COOLER AIR TO MOV IN LATE THIS MORN AND THIS AFTN. EXTENDED TSRA WATCH TIL NOON. .FGF...SVR TSRA WATCH #715 IN EFFECT TIL NOON FOR NDZ006>008-014>016- 024-026>030-054-MNZ001-002-004>009-013>017-022-023. HOPPES
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 28, 11:22 AM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
1122 AM CDT MON AUG 28 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 AM NEW ROCKFORD ND 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 EDDY
0600 AM NEW ROCKFORD ND 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 EDDY
0605 AM WEBSTER ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 RAMSEY 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
WEBSTER
0615 AM CHURCHS FERRY ND 75 MPH TSTM GUST
08/28/00 RAMSEY
0625 AM MADDOCK ND 65 MPH TSTM GUST
08/28/00 BENSON 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
MADDOCK
0625 AM MADDOCK ND 65 MPH TSTM GUST
08/28/00 BENSON 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
MADDOCK
0625 AM BRANTFORD ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 EDDY
0625 AM BRANTFORD ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 EDDY
0630 AM OBERON ND 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/28/00 BENSON 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
OBERON
0640 AM TOLNA ND 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/28/00 NELSON 5 MILES WEST OF TOLNA
0640 AM TOLNA ND 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/28/00 NELSON 5 MILES WEST OF TOLNA
0745 AM CANDO ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 TOWNER 8 MILES EAST OF CANDO
0950 AM ST THOMAS ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 PEMBINA 5 MILES EAST FO ST THOMAS
1000 AM DRAYTON ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 PEMBINA 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
DRAYTON
1035 AM KENNEDY MN .75 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 KITTSON
NSpecial weather statement, Aug 28, 12:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030-054-MNZ001-002-004>009-013>017-022-023 -281715- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1203 PM CDT MON AUG 28 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 715 EXPIRED AT NOON CDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 715 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON SOME OF WHICH MAY BE SEVERE. YOU SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS...WATCHES OR WARNINGS. HOPPES NNNN
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 12:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030-054-MNZ001-002-004>009-013>017-022-023 -281715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...COR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1211 PM CDT MON AUG 28 2000 ...CORRECTION FOR PRODUCT TITLE... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 715 EXPIRED AT NOON CDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 715 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON SOME OF WHICH MAY BE SEVERE. YOU SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS...WATCHES OR WARNINGS. HOPPES NNNN
Local storm report, Aug 28, 1:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
146 PM CDT MON AUG 28 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 AM ESMOND 6E ND TSTMS WND GUSTS
08/28/00 BENSON 60 MPH
0610 AM WEBSTER ND TSTMS WND GUSTS
08/28/00 RAMSEY 60-70 MPH
0650 AM NEW ROCKFORD 9NE ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 EDDY
0845 AM EDMORE 9NE ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 RAMSEY
0850 AM FAIRDALE 7NE ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 WALSH
0908 AM MILTON ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 CAVALIER
1030 AM ST. THOMAS 2W ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 PEMBINA
1055 AM LAKE BRONSON MN .88 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 KITTSON
1055 AM DRAYTON 4N ND .75 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 PEMBINA
1125 AM KENNEDY MN .75 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 KITTSON
1220 PM GREENBUSH MN .75 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 ROSEAU
KENNEDYLocal storm report, Aug 28, 2:15 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
215 PM CDT MON AUG 28 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1010 AM KENNEDY 9W MN 1.25 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 KITTSON
KENNEDYLocal storm report, Aug 28, 2:45 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
WWUS30 KFAR 281914
LSRFAR
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
245 PM CDT MON AUG 28 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1035 AM HOOPLE 2S ND 1 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 WALSH
1040 AM HOOPLE 4E ND .88 INCH HAIL
08/28/00 WALSH <
KENNEDYThe 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, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.