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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 266, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2000, 6:11 PM CDT for Hubbard County, Minnesota. It was in force for 29 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, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 6:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hubbard County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 6:23 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lake George, MN | |
| Sep 2, 6:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Kabekona Corner, 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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
269 WUUS53 KFGF 022311 SVRFAR MNC057-022340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 611 PM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HUBBARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 640 PM CDT * AT 610 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF LAKE GEORGE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEMIDJI...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE GEORGE AT 615 PM CDT... KABEKONA AT 620 PM CDT... BENEDICT AT 625 PM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4726 9521 4708 9516 4711 9469 4734 9469 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, 3:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 3:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 325 PM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 FORECAST PROBLEM FOR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY IS PCPN. LATEST VIS AND IR SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS CWFA COVERED IN IFR DECK WITH COLDEST CLOUD TOPS WORKING INTO S RRV. LATEST MSAS SFC PRESSURE ANALYSIS HAS LOW CENTERED IN SE MT WITH TROF EXTENDING THROUGH W SD TO ANOTHER LOW IN EXTREME NE NEBRASKA. CWFA REMAINS IN MOIST E-SE FLOW. CONVECTION STILL FIRING ALONG 850MB WARM FRONT WHICH ACCORDING TO 12Z UA ANALYSIS EXTENDING THROUGH SE ND INTO WC MN. KMVX HAS REMAINDER OF PCPN EXTENDING NE FROM THESE TSRA INTO NW MN. WHEN COMPARING MSAS PRESSURE ANALYSIS TO MODELS...ETA MATCHES BEST WITH AVN ALSO CLOSE. THEREFORE...PRIMARILY UTILIZED ETA FOR FORECAST. MODELS KEEP PCPN POTENTIAL OVER CWFA AS JET CONTINUES TO PUNCH N INTO ND AND SFC INSTABILITY PARAMETERS CONTINUE TO DESTABILIZE 00Z. THEREFORE... EXPECT TSRA TO CONTINUE THIS EVENING...WITH ISOLD SVR AS WELL...ESPECIALLY IN S CWFA. BEST INSTABILITY SHIFTS INTO MN OVERNIGHT...WITH LINGERING PCPN POTENTIAL IN THE MORNING FOR MN SIDE OF CWFA. WILL NEED TO KEEP URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY OUT FOR SE ND AND EXTEND IT INTO PART OF WC MN...AS LINE OF HEAVIEST CONVECTION SLOWLY MOVING E AND NE...INCLUDING THE FARGO/MOORHEAD AREA. FORECAST PROBLEM FOR THIRD AND FOURTH PERIODS IS TEMPS. WITH EASTERLY FLOW CONTINUING...WITH NO STRONG COLD FRONT ANTICIPATED TO SCOUR OUT THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...CAN EXPECT MO CLDY SKY AND COOLER TEMPS TO REMAIN. THEREFORE...KEPT TEMPS IN THE NORMAL TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL RANGE. EXTENDED...INITIALLY MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT WITH RIDGE AXIS SHIFTING INTO MN PUTTING FA IN SW FLOW ALOFT THROUGH FIRST HALF OF WORK WEEK. MODELS THEN DIVERGE. UK INITIALLY IN AGREEMENT WITH OTHER MODELS...THEN RETROGRESSES BROAD UPPER RIDGE AXIS BACK OVR N CENTRAL STATES WHICH SEEMS INCONSISTENT. OTHERWISE...TREND IS TO TRACK TROF THROUGH FA WITH MRF SLOWEST BETWEEN CAN/EURO AND NOGAPS. THEN...THE RELATIVELY STATIONARY HIGH PLAINS SFC LOW BEGINS TO PUSH EAST...AND WITH THE SW FLOW EJECTING ENERGY NE...WILL CONTINUE MENTION OF PCPN DURING THIS TIME FRAME. WITH PASSAGE OF TROF AND APPROACH OF SFC HIGH...WILL CARRY DRY FCST INTO SATURDAY. THICKNESS AND H8 TEMPS INDICATE SEASONAL TEMPS INTO MIDWEEK...THEN A COOLDOWN FOLLOWING CFP AFT >THURSDAY. .FGF...NONE NG/VOELKER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 2, 4:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
442 PM CDT SAT SEP 02 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1140 AM 6 S FINGAL ND 1 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 BARNES
1153 AM 8 NE ALICE ND 1 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 CASS
1205 PM 4 N EMBDEN ND .88 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 CASS
1233 PM 3 W FT RANSOM ND .75 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 RANSOM
1245 PM 2 SW LUCCA ND .88 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 BARNES
1255 PM 4 W ALICE ND .88 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 CASS
0145 PM 1 E ENDERLIN ND 1 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 RANSOM
0150 PM 8 NW GWINNER ND .75 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 SARGENT
0220 PM 15 N MC LEOD ND .75 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 RANSOM
0230 PM 5 S LEONARD ND .75 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 RICHLAND
0310 PM 5 S MOORHEAD MN 1 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 CLAY
0325 PM 2 N GLYNDON MN .75 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 CLAY
0345 PM 13 E GWINNER ND 1 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 SARGENT
0352 PM 1 E HORACE ND .75 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 CASS
0355 PM 4 W KINDRED ND .75 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 CASS
0355 PM 4 SW ELLIOTT ND 1 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 RANSOM
NLocal storm report, Sep 2, 5:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
500 PM CDT SAT SEP 02 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0350 PM 8 S LISBON ND 1 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 RANSOM
0405 PM LISBON ND .75 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 RANSOM
0405 PM 5 SW LISBON ND 1.75 INCH HAIL
09/02/00 RANSOM
NThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 32 min |
| 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 |
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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.