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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 9, 2000Kittson County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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: Jun 9, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2000, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kittson County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:03 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
Jun 9, 3:10 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Halma, 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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFGF 090801
SVRFAR
MNC069-089-090830-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 330 AM CDT

* AT 258 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF STEPHEN...OR ABOUT 23
  MILES EAST OF GRAFTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DONALDSON AT 305 AM CDT
  HALMA AT 330 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.

LAT...LON 4849 9708 4837 9688 4871 9640 4886 9661

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Polk, Red Lake	31 min
Jun 9, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clearwater	31 min
Jun 9, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	33 min
Jun 9, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clearwater	32 min
Jun 9, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami	45 min
Jun 9, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall	32 min
Jun 9, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall	31 min
Jun 9, 2:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall	29 min
Jun 9, 2:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Pennington	33 min
Jun 9, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall	31 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.