Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2000, 12:43 PM CDT for Barnes County, Cass County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 min. 2 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
- Sep 2, 2000, 12:43 PM CDT (17:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 12:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Lucca, ND | |
| Sep 2, 12:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Alice, 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 021744 SVRFAR NDC003-017-021815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1243 PM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWESTERN CASS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... * UNTIL 115 PM CDT * AT 1237 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF NOME...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTH OF VALLEY CITY...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FINGAL AT 1245 PM CDT... ALICE AT 1255 PM CDT... BUFFALO AT 105 PM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4665 9798 4665 9761 4676 9750 4698 9759 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 34 min |
| Sep 2, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 29 min |
| Sep 2, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland | 28 min |
| Sep 2, 4:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Cass, Ransom, Richland | 4 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.