Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2000, 1:14 AM CDT for Pembina County, Walsh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2000, 1:14 AM CDT (06:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2000, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Pembina County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:16 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 1790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
207 WFUS53 KFGF 140614 TORFAR NDC067-099-140645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 114 AM CDT MON AUG 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PEMBINA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA NORTHEASTERN WALSH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 145 AM CDT * AT 110 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER HOOPLE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAFTON... MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GLASSTON AT 115 AM CDT DRAYTON AT 130 AM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4874 9765 4854 9768 4838 9720 4869 9712 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Towner | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 45 min |
| Aug 14, 4:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Steele | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 5:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 5:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 7:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Steele, Traill | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Traill | 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.