Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 28, 2000Cavalier County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2000, 3:16 PM CDT for Cavalier County, North Dakota. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 2000, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2000, 3:50 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Cavalier County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 28, 3:30 PM CDTHail 0.88Loma, ND

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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 278 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2000-06-28Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2000-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1441 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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 282018
SVRFAR
NDC019-282050-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
316 PM CDT WED JUN 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CAVALIER COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 350 PM CDT

* AT 314 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LANGDON OR 4 MILES
  NORTH OF LOMA... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LOMA  AT 325 PM CDT
  NEKOMA AT 349 PM CDT

REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE
TORNADOES WkITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING.

VOELKER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCavalier35 min
Jun 28, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFWalsh32 min
Jun 28, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFNelson34 min
Jun 28, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFEddy34 min
Jun 28, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFNelson35 min
Jun 28, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFSteele36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.