Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2001, 3:44 PM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota. 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
- Jun 8, 2001, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2001, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kittson County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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 nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 082044 SVRFAR MNC069-082115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 344 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 338 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF ORLEANS...OR ABOUT 48 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAFTON...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN CANADA. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ORLEANS AT 355 PM CDT... LANCASTER AT 415 PM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4912 9681 4905 9707 4871 9692 4879 9660 $$ NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 2:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 220 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 2001 FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE CONVECTION THROUGH PERIOD .OVERVIEW... UPPER WAVE AND SFC TROUGH CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST INTO THE RED RIVER VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. CONVECTION IS GETTING MORE INTENSE NEAR INTERNATIONAL BORDER ATTM...WITH ANOTHER CELL IN NORTHWEST FA. ETA MODEL DID THE BEST WITH MOISTURE...SO WILL UTILIZE. .SHORT TERM... CONVECTION THIS EVENING ENTERING MN SHOULD SLOWLY DIE WITH DAY TIME HEATING OVERNIGHT...BUT SHOULD PERSIST TO AROUND 04Z AFTER UPPER WAVE MOVES THROUGH AREA. THERE MAY BE A SEVERE STORM OR TWO THIS EVENING...WITH LIFT FROM SHORTWAVE AND DECENT INSTABILITY. LATER TONIGHT...850MB LOW LEVEL JET DEVELOPS IN CENTRAL SD...WITH SHOWALTER/S APPROACHING -2C IN SOUTHEAST ND BY 12Z SAT. THIS COULD BRING A ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS INTO SOUTHEAST ND LATE TONIGHT. TEMPS SHOULD FALL INTO THE MIDDLE 50S. .LONG TERM... ACTIVE PATTERN SHOULD CONTINUE WITH WARM AIR ADVECTION CONTINUING WITH GOOD MID LEVEL FLOW. SFC WARM FRONT WILL DEVELOP IN NEAR NORTHEAST SD...WITH FAIRLY WEAK PRESSURE PATTERN OVER FA. INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE WILL BE PLENTIFUL THROUGH SUNDAY...WITH CAPES AROUND 2000 J/KG AND PRECIPITABLE WATERS AROUND 1.20 INCHES ACROSS ALL BUT EXTREME NORTHEAST FA. EVEN IN NORTHEAST....CAPES APPROACH 1500 J/KG WITH PRECIPITABLE WATERS NEARING 1 INCH BY 00Z SUNDAY. STORMS SHOULD HOLD OFF ACROSS NORTHERN FA ON SATURDAY UNTIL AFTERNOON...WITH THE REST OF AREA SEEING A CHANCE AT ANY TIME SATURDAY. A POTENT SHORTWAVE WILL RIDE OVER RIDGE SATURDAY NIGHT...AND EXPECT AN MCS TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST ND AND RIDE SOUTHEAST BY SUNDAY MORNING. TIMING OF SHORTWAVES IS TOUGH...AND WITH BOUNDARIES LEFT OVER FROM CONVECTION WILL JUST MENTION A CHANCE FOR STORMS ALL DAY SUNDAY...WITH BEST CHANCES FROM LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH THE NIGHT. EXPECT SOME SEVERE STORMS THROUGHOUT WEEKEND...WITH BEST CHANCES SATURDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING...THEN AGAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY NIGHT WITH ANOTHER MCS POSSIBLE AS SOUTHWEST FLOW DEVELOPS. TEMPS WILL BE AROUND 80 TO 85...WITH DEWPOINTS NEAR 60 MAKING IT FEEL QUITE MUGGY. EXPECT LOWS IN THE MIDDLE 50S TO AROUND 60 AS WELL. FWC HAS A GOOD HANDLE ON SITUATION...AND WILL FOLLOW FAIRLY CLOSELY. STILL SOME TIMINING DIFFERENCES ON THE EXTEDNED MODELS IN WHEN THE 50H MOTHER LOW EJECTS OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN STATES NEXT WEEK. UNTIL THE LOW EJECTS OUT CAN NOT RULE OUT A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON ANY GIVEN DAY IN SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. CONFIDENCE BEGINS TO DIMINISH IN THE FORECAST RIGHT AT THE START OF THE EXTENDED. THE ECMWF IS NOW THE FASTEST OF THE MODELS WITH THE CANADIAN STILL THE SLOWEST. MRF IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AND IS NOTORIOUSLY TO FAST IN THESE SITUATIONS. WILL CONTINUE TOWARDS THE TRANSISTION TO A MORE ACTIVE PATTEREN FROM PREVIOUS EXTENDED. WITH THE AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY COULD SEE SEVERE TSRA AND HEAVY RAINS THROUGH WEDENSDAY. .FGF...NONE. KELLENBENZ/BRAZZELL
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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.