Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2001, 10:46 AM CDT for Barnes County, North Dakota. It was in force for 29 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 11, 2001, 10:46 AM CDT (15:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2001, 11:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Barnes County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 9:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -451 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1277 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 111546 SVRFAR NDC003-111615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 1046 AM CDT MON JUN 11 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL BARNES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... * UNTIL 1115 AM CDT * AT 1041 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF ORISKA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF VALLEY CITY...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINSc IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4697 9788 4676 9780 4675 9771 4698 9774 $$ 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 11, 10:42 AM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 10:42 AM CDT, 4 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1042 AM CDT MON JUN 11 2001 ...DUE TO ONGOING SVR WEATHER WL BE BRIEF... SFC LOW CONT TO MOVE E OVER NE SD THIS MORNING WITH WARM FRONT MOVING INTO SRN ZONES. DECENT JET TO N OF THIS AREA COMBINED WITH 7H SHRT WV LIFTING INTO THE ERN DAKOTAS TO HELP KEEP TSTM ACTIVITY GOING INTO THE AFTN...WITH ACTIVITY ENDING FROM W TO E OVER ALL BUT FAR ERN ZONES BY 0Z. HIGH PRECIPITABLE H2O VALUES SHOWN BY MESOETA OVER SRN VALLEY AND POINTS EAST...AND WITH FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS BEING ISSUED DUE TO STRONG/SEVERE STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS WL KEEP FLASH FLOOD WATCH GOING ATTM. WL MAKE MINOR TWEAKS TO CURRENT ZFP TO REFLECT ONGOING CONDITIONS BUT NO BIG CHANGES PLANNED. .FGF...SVR THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 2 PM FOR SE ND AND WEST CENTRAL AND S SECTIONS OF NW MN... FLASH FLOOD WATCH THIS AFTERNOON FOR 0RANSOM...SARGENT...RICHLAND... WILKIN...OTTERTAIL AND GRANT COUNTIES. RJT
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 11, 10:31 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
1031 AM CDT MON JUN 11 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0915 AM WAHPETON ND .75 INCH HAIL
06/11/01 RICHLAND
0915 AM 2 S ECKELSON ND 1.5 INCH HAIL
06/11/01 BARNES
0946 AM VALLEY CITY ND 1 INCH HAIL
06/11/01 BARNES
0950 AM FERGUS FALLS MN .88 INCH HAIL
06/11/01 OTTER TAIL 60 MPH WINDS REPORTED BY
KBRF
0950 AM VALLEY CITY ND 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/11/01 BARNES
1000 AM FERGUS FALLS MN 70 MPH TSTM GUST
06a/11/01 OTTER TAIL REPORTED BY OFF DUTY NWS
EMPLOYEE
1000 AM 3 N FOXHOME MN .75 INCH HAIL
06/11/01 WILKINThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Towner | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 8:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 9:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 10:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 10:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 11:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 29 min |
| Jun 11, 11:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 31 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.