Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2000, 4:16 PM CDT for Nelson 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, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2000, 4:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nelson County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Mapes, 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 228 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 282118 SVRFAR NDC063-282150- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 416 PM CDT WED JUN 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN NELSON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 450 PM CDT * AT 415 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 29 MILES EAST OF DEVILS LAKE OR 7 MILES NORTH OF MAPES... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MAPES AT 427 PM CDT MICHIGAN AT 434 PM CDT DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORNADOES AROE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. HOPPES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 35 min |
| Jun 28, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 34 min |
| Jun 28, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Walsh | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 34 min |
| Jun 28, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 35 min |
| Jun 28, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Steele | 36 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.