Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2000, 10:10 PM CDT for Richland County, North Dakota; Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 min. 3 reports 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
- Jul 1, 2000, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 10:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Barney, ND | |
| Jul 1, 10:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Barney, ND | Trees and power lines were blown down at Barney. |
| Jul 1, 10:37 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Breckenridge, MN |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 3394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
441 WUUS53 KFGF 020310 SVRFAR MNC167-NDC077-020345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 1010 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WILKIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA NORTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1009 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAHPETON OR 6 MILES WEST OF BRUSHVALE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BRUSHVALE AT 1020 PM CDT ABERCROMBIE AT 1024 PM CDT REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. $$ HOPPES N
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland, Sargent | 33 min |
| Jul 1, 9:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Richland, Sargent | 7 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.