Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2000, 7:17 PM CDT for Cass County, North Dakota. It was in force for 28 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 19, 2000, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cass County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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 19, 7:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 M | Fargo, ND | At the main NDSU mesonet site on the northwest edge of Fargo, a 55 knot wind gust was measured. |
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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 609 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1076 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
848 WFUS53 KFGF 200017 TORFAR NDC017-200045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 717 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CASS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 715 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HORACE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FARGO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HORACE AT 725 PM CDT WILD RICE AT 735 PM CDT FARGO AT 745 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Steele, Traill | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Cass | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 10:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland | 4 hr |
| Jun 19, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 29 min |
| Jun 19, 10:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Cass, Traill | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland | 2 hr |
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.