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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2000, 2:43 PM CDT for Clay County, Minnesota; Cass County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2000, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, MN, Cass County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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, 2:52 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Horace, ND | |
| Sep 2, 2:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Kindred, ND | |
| Sep 2, 3:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Fargo Arpt, ND | |
| Sep 2, 3:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Moorhead, MN | |
| Sep 2, 3:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Fargo, ND | |
| Sep 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Glyndon, 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 253 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 021943 SVRFAR MNC027-NDC017-022015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 243 PM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... SOUTHEASTERN CASS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FARGO * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 239 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF DAVENPORT...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FARGO...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HICKSON AT 245 PM CDT... HORACE AT 250 PM CDT... RUSTAD AT 255 PM CDT... FARGO AT 300 PM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4670 9720 4665 9698 4669v 9663 4713 9664 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 Sep 2, 10:05 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 10:05 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 1005 AM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 FORECAST PROBLEM FOR TODAY IS PCPN. LATEST VIS AND IR SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS CWFA COVERED IN IFR DECK WITH COLDEST CLOUD TOPS WORKING INTO E ND. LATEST MSAS SFC PRESSURE ANALYSIS HAS LOW PRESSURE CENTERED IN SE MT WITH TROF EXTENDING THROUGH W SD TO ANOTHER LOW IN CENTRAL NE. CWFA IS IN MOIST E-SE FLOW. 12Z 850MB UA MAP SHOWS WARM FRONT EXTENDING THROUGH SE ND INTO WC MN... COINCIDENTAL TO WHERE CURRENTLY HAVE STRONGEST CONVECTION. WITH REST OF CWFA GETTING GENERAL SHRA/TSRA DUE TO WAA. WHEN COMPARING MSAS PRESSURE ANALYSIS TO MODELS...ETA MATCHES BEST WITH AVN ALSO CLOSE. MODELS KEEP PCPN OVER CWFA AS SHORTWAVE MOVES THROUGH...WITH BEST POTENTIAL FOR STRONGER STORMS STILL IN S CWFA. ALL IN ALL...CURRENT FORECAST HANDLING SITUATION WELL...WITH ONLY MINOR CHANGES NEEvDED. .FGF...NONE NG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 28 min |
| Sep 2, 4:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Clay | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 28 min |
| Sep 2, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clearwater | 29 min |
| Sep 2, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 29 min |
| 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, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass | 32 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, 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 |
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.