Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2001, 2:10 PM CDT for Grant County, Minnesota. It was in force for 35 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 9, 2001, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2001, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Grant County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 091910 SVRFAR MNC051-091945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 210 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN GRANT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 204 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WENDELL...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF FERGUS FALLS...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WENDELL AT 215 PM CDT... ELBOW LAKE AT 225 PM CDT... ASHBY AT 235 PM CDT... ERDAHL AT 240 PM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4611 9620 4601 9627 4579 9584 4609 9563 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 9, 10:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 10:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1050 AM CDT SAT JUN 9 2001 .CURRENT...LATEST SURFACE MAP SHOWS NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA. ONCE CONVECTIVE CLUSTER OVER CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA MOVES EAST AND DIES OUT...FRONT WILL BEGIN NORTHWARD PROGRESSION LATER THIS AFTERNOON. ELEVATED CONVECTIVE AREA ALSO LOCATED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ZONE SETS. .SHORT TERM...ISOLATED SHOWERS...POSSIBLY A TSRA WILL SHOULD CONTINUE TO DIE OUT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ZONES INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON. WITH THE CONVECTIVE DEBRIS AROUND AND SOIL MOISTURE FROM RAINS YESTERDAY...THE SOUTHERN ZONES FORECAST SHOULD BE IN THE BALL PARK ON THE TEMPERATURES FOR TODAY. FURTHER NORTH...TEMPERATURES ALREADY NEAR 80 AND WILL HAVE TO RAISE THESE. OTHERWISE...EXPECT ANY TSRA WILL REMAIN PRETTY BENIGN TODAY. THE MAIN SHOW SHOULD HOLD OFF UNTIL THE EVENING HOURS. .FGF...NONE. BRAZZELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Otter Tail | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.