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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND

May 5, 2000Griggs County, Nelson County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2000, 9:13 PM CDT for Griggs County, Nelson County, North Dakota. It was in force for 42 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: May 5, 2000, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2000, 9:55 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 5, 9:17 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Binford, ND
May 5, 9:30 PM CDT	Hail 1	Cooperstown, ND	Hail completely covered the ground.

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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1703 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 5.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KFGF 060214
SVRFAR
NDC039-063-060255-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
913 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN NELSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
  NORTHERN GRIGGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 955 PM CDT

* AT 910 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SEVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BINFORD...OR ABOUT 44 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  DEVILS LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  JESSIE AT 925 PM CDT

REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 4775 9852 4740 9847 4741 9799 4779 9801

HOPPES
NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Griggs, Nelson, Steele	42 min
May 5, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grand Forks	42 min
May 5, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Griggs	40 min
May 5, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Griggs, Steele	33 min
May 6, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Benson, Eddy	30 min
May 6, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Ramsey	30 min
May 6, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Benson, Cavalier, Ramsey	29 min
May 6, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Cavalier, Pembina	45 min
May 6, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Ramsey	28 min
May 6, 2:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Nelson, Walsh	32 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.