Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2001, 5:26 PM CDT for Ransom County, Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 34 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 16, 2001, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Sheldon, ND |
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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 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 162226 SVRFAR NDC073-077-162300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 526 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN RANSOM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... NORTHWESTERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 525 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF SHELDON...OR ABOUT 34 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FARGO...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BARRIE AT 545 PM CDT... REMEMBERR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. $$ GODON 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 16, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 315 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001 ...FORECAST CHALLENGE CONTINUES TO BE PRECIPITATION CHANCES... .CURRENT OVERVIEW...WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWING CLASSIC VORTICITY SIGNATURE TRACKING ACROSS CENTRAL MN ATTM. STRONGEST TSTM ACTIVITY FIRING EAST AND NORTH OF THIS FEATURE. WIDELY SCT -TSRA DEVELOPING IN SE ND WHERE CLEARING LINE WAS THIS MORNING WHERE DIFFERENTIAL SFC HEATING WAS MAXIMIZED. .SHORT TERM...WENT WITH ETA FOR DETAILS. CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY SHOULD DIMINISH QUICKLY TOWARD SUNSET. ADDED AN EVENING SUB PERIOD TO MOST ZONES TO REFLECT THIS. QUIET PERIOD EXPECTED OVERNIGHT AS UPPER LEVEL NVA DOMINATES DUE TO DEPARTING SHORT WAVE. EXPECT PATCHY FOG TO DEVELOP TONIGHT ACROSS THE CWFA AS LIGHT WINDS AND AREAS OF SATURATED SOILS ARE FAIRLY WIDESPREAD. .MID TERM...NEXT SERIES OF SHORTWAVES IN FAST H5 ZONAL FLOW TO PASS THROUGH THE AREA SUNDAY INTO EARLY MONDAY. TSTM ACTIVITY SHOULD BE ON THE INCREASE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS SFC TROF MOVES IN. BEST INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN IN SD. HOWEVER...RIDGE OF 330+K 850 MB THETA-E IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO CENTRAL ND DURING THE EARLY EVENING. BL CAPE VALUES SHOULD CLIMB INTO THE 1000-1500 J/KG RANGE BY LATE AFTERNOON IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CWA. GOOD DIRECTIONAL SHEAR...WITH WEAK SPEED SHEAR...IN THE SFC TO 700 MB LAYER MAY GENERATE A FEW ELEVATED SUPERCELLS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. THUS...AGREE WITH SPC SWODY2 SLIGHT RISK OUTLINE. .EXTENDED...NORTHWEST FLOW REGIME CONTINUES AT H5 EARLY IN THE PERIOD WITH RIDGING STARTING TO BUILD IN LATER IN THE EXTENDED. OPEN WAVE AT H5 COMES DOWN IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW ON WED BRINGING THE BEST CHANCE FOR PCPN. FOR NOW WILL KEEP THE CHANCE OF PCPN ON TUE IN THE FAST NW FLOW AND DEPARTING JET ENERGY...ALTHOUGH MODELS NOW STARTING TO SHOW A DRY SOLUTION. TEMPS STILL BELOW NORMAL EARLY...TRENDING BACK TOWARD NORMAL WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE. .FGF...NONE. BRAMER/GODON
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 16, 4:30 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
430 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0323 PM 4 S COLFAX ND .75 INCH HAIL
06/16/01 RICHLAND
0337 PM GALCHUTT ND .75 INCH HAIL
06/16/01 RICHLAND
0340 PM 3 S 1 W ABERCROMBIE ND .88 INCH HAIL
06/16/01 RICHLANDSpecial weather statement, Jun 16, 5:00 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-161400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 500 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001 ...FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE POSSIBLE IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS EVENING... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR VALLEY CITY...SOUTHEAST TO ELBOW LAKE LATE THIS AFTERNOON ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FUNNEL CLOUDS THIS EVENING. SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED AROUND WAHPETON. THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO TOUCH DOWN AND BECOME TORNADOES. IF ANY OF THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS DO TOUCH DOWN...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPOgRT THEM TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL RAPIDLY STABILIZE AFTER SUNSET...AND THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS AND FUNNEL CLOUDS WILL CEASE. KELLENBENZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.