Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2001, 3:06 AM CDT for Beltrami County, Minnesota. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2001, 3:06 AM CDT (08:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2001, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Beltrami County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 2185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
995 WUUS53 KFGF 140807 SVRFAR MNC007-140830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 306 AM CDT MON MAY 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BELTRAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 330 AM CDT * AT 303 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF MALCOLM...OR ABOUT 39 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROSEAU...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL BELTRAMI COUNTY QUARTER SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. 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 May 13, 8:40 PM CDT, 6 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 8:40 PM CDT, 6 hours 26 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 840 PM CDT SUN MAY 13 2001 .CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL OVERVIEW... 01Z MSAS ANALYSIS DEPICTED TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE FROM SK PROVINCE TO EASTERN MONTANA/EXTREME WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LATEST EXAMINATION OF KMVX VAD WIND PROFILE INDICATED GOOD PUNCH OF SOUTHERLY LOW-LEVEL WINDS AHEAD OF TROUGH WITH WITH 30 TO 40 KTS EVIDENT. LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWED GOOD MID-LEVEL RIDGE CIRCULATION IN PLACE OVER NORTHERN PLAINS WITH MAIN BRUNT OF CLOUDS RIDING NORTH INTO CANADA. .FORECAST DETAILS... CONVECTION SLOW TO EVOLVE OUT WEST ATTM. BIG QUESTION OVERNIGHT IS WHETHER STRONG CAP CURRENTLY IN PLACE OVER AREA HOLDS. ATTM WILL DELAY ARRIVAL TIME OF CONVECTION OUT WEST. HOPEFULLY FRESH INCOMING MODEL DATA WILL SHED SOME ADDITIONAL INSIGHT INTO SHORT TERM FORECAST CONCERNS. .FGF...NONE. BERGV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 50 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.