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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Grand Forks, ND

May 5, 2000Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2000, 10:03 PM CDT for Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 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: May 5, 2000, 10:03 PM CDT (03:03 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2000, 10:40 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Lake of the Woods County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 227 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:04 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 5, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 443 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 497 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFGF 060304
SVRFAR
MNC077-060340-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
1003 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

* UNTIL 1040 PM CDT

* AT 959 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SEVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF FAUNCE...OR ABOUT 35 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF ROSEAU...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLEMENTSON AT 1035 PM CDT

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

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

BRAZZELL
NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall, Roseau	33 min
May 5, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall, Roseau	46 min
May 5, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Roseau	42 min
May 5, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall	42 min
May 5, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Roseau	32 min
May 5, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods	30 min
May 6, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater	28 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.