Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2000, 4:32 PM CDT for Ransom County, Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 28 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
- Sep 2, 2000, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.
364 WUUS53 KFGF 022132 SVRFAR NDC073-077-022200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 432 PM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN RANSOM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... NORTHWESTERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 430 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER VENLO...OR ABOUT 39 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FARGO...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN RANSOM COUNTY... NORTHEASTERN RANSOM COUNTY... NORTHEASTERN RANSOM COUNTY... EXTREME NORTHEASTERN RANSOM COUNTY REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4650 9760 4637 9742 4662 9701 4662 9731 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, 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, 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, 4:44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.