Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2001, 8:51 PM CDT for Polk County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2001, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Polk County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 9:03 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mentor, MN | |
| May 9, 9:14 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Winger, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2422 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 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 100151 SVRFAR MNC119-100215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 851 PM CDT WED MAY 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 846 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAPLE BAY...OR ABOUT 32 MILES SOUTH OF THIEF RIVER FALLS...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MAPLE BAY AT 850 PM CDT... MENTOR AT 900 PM CDT... ERSKINE AT 910 PM CDT... WINGER AT 915 PM CDT... DIME SIZE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4776 9634 4758 9640 4751 9591 4766 9588 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 36 min |
| May 9, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 34 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.