Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2000, 10:10 PM CDT for Griggs County, North Dakota. It was in force for 40 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, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2000, 10:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Griggs County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 1703 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 060310 SVRFAR NDC039-060350- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1010 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GRIGGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1050 PM CDT * AT 1009 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SEVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF SUTTON...OR ABOUT 41 MILES NORTHWEST OF VALLEY CITY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... JESSIE AT 1020 PM CDT COOPERSTOWN AT 1030 PM CDT REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. 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, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Nelson | 42 min |
| May 5, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Nelson, Steele | 42 min |
| May 5, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 42 min |
| May 5, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Steele | 33 min |
| May 6, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Eddy | 30 min |
| May 6, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ramsey | 30 min |
| May 6, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Cavalier, Ramsey | 29 min |
| May 6, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Pembina | 45 min |
| May 6, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ramsey | 28 min |
| May 6, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson, Walsh | 32 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.