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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 9, 2000Pembina County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 2:59 AM CDT for Pembina County, North Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2000, 2:59 AM CDT (07:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2000, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Pembina County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:58 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 313 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2000-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2000-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1351 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFGF 090800
SVRFAR
NDC067-090830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
259 AM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PEMBINA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 330 AM CDT

* AT 258 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF CRYSTAL...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF GRAFTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ST. THOMAS AT 305 AM CDT
  GLASSTON AT 310 AM CDT
  BOWESMONT AT 320 AM CDT
  JOLIETTE AT 325 AM CDT

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

DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORNADOES ARE ALL
POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED
BUILDING IMMEDIATELY.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 1:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRamsey29 min
Jun 9, 2:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFNelson, Walsh32 min
Jun 9, 2:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRamsey31 min
Jun 9, 2:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFWalsh32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.