Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Grand Forks, ND

Issued

Jun 30, 2000, 12:19 AM CDT (05:19 UTC)

Expired

Jun 30, 2000, 12:55 AM CDT

In force

36 min

Issued by

NWS Grand Forks, ND

Area

Whole counties

County Eddy County, ND

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

489 
WUUS53 KFGF 300519
SVRFAR
NDC027-300555-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
1219 AM CDT FRI JUN 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1255 AM CDT

* AT 1218 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTH OF DEVILS LAKE OR 10 MILES
  NORTH OF BRANTFORD... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BRANTFORD AT 1243 AM CDT

DURING THUNDERSTORMS YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  DO
NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES.

RJT

N

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 29, 7:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.

FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
745 PM CDT THU JUN 29 2000

ANALYSIS/SHORT TERM...WEAK SFC TROF PASSING THROUGH NW MN EARLIER
THIS EVENING PROVIDED FOCUS FOR CONVECTION THROUGH THE MAX HEATING
PHASE TDY. THIS TROF/ACTIVITY HAS PUSHED EWD INTO NERN MN. ACTIVITY
IN SERN ND IS TIED TO THE TRAILING END OF THE SFC TROF AND THE
REGION OF HIGHER INSTABILITIES (LOWER LIS) CENTERED OVR CNTRL ND AND
SOMEWHAT AUGMENTED WITH A WEAK MID LVL SHTWV AXIS DROPPING THROUGH
THE CNTRL DKTAS IN THE NW FLOW PATTERN. ACTIVITY W OF DVL IS ALSO
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS AREA OF GREATER INSTABILITY. THE 18Z MESOETA
CARRIES THIS INSTABILITY AXIS INTO THE ERN EDGE OF THE RRV BETWEEN
03-06Z...MAINTAINING CAPES GREATER THAN 1000 J/KG THROUGH THIS
PERIOD. SFC BASED LIS APCNG MINUS 6 ARE CERTAINLY SUFFICIENT TO
MAINTAIN ISOLD STRONG TSTM ACTIVITY TO NEAR MIDNIGHT OVR PTNS OF ERN
ND SOUTH OF U.S. HWY 2. MOST OF NW MN WILL REMAIN SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE
THROUGH THE EVENING...BUT THE ACTIVITY IN SRN MAN SHOULD DIMINISH
BEFORE MOVING INTO THE FAR NRN MN ZONES LATE TNGT SO PCPN NOT
EXPECTED. WILL NEED TO CLOSELY MONITOR MOST TSTM CELLS SINCE SOME
HAIL THREAT WILL PERSIST THIS EVENING. FCST UPDATE HAS BEEN ISSUED.

.FGF...NONE.
GUST

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