Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 6:46 PM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 27, 2001, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kittson County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 7:07 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Kennedy, 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 nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 1793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 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 272347 SVRFAR MNC069-280015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS 646 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 642 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF KENNEDY...OR ABOUT 31 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAFTON...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HALLOCK AT 650 PM CDT... LAKE BRONSON AT 710 PM CDT... LANCASTER AT 715 PM CDT... REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4871 9706 4859 9687 4883 9645 4899 9669 $$ 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 27, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 330 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001 .SHORT TERM... WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS UPR CICR OVR WRN WY MOVG NE AND WL MOV THRU THE CWFA ON THU. WARM MID LVLS WERE CREATING PLENTY OF CIN ACRS THE AREA. MOST UNSTABLE LVLS WERE ELEVATED ON THE 12Z BIS SOUNDING ARND 800 HPA, 650 HPA ON THE INL SOUNDING, AND 900 HPA ON ABR SOUNDING. MESOSCALE ANLYS HAS PRES FALLS CNTRD OVR NW MN OR N OF A WARM FNT EXTENDING FM NR VWU TO LOW PRES IN SE MT. GOOD TEMP GRAD ACRS FNT. BEST CHC FOR TSRA WL BE IN NW COUNTIES OVNGT AS STORMS DEVELOP OVR WRN ND/ERN MT AND MOV NE. POCKET OF LWR 850 HPA THETA-E AIR MOVS INTO FAR ERN ZONES OVNGT AND WL GO MSTLY CLR TNGT. UPR LVL WV TO MOV THRU THU WITH THE BEST CHC PRECIP ACRS THE CWFA. CAPES AND LIS UNSTABLE THU AND RELATIVELY LITTLE CIN AS 700 HPA TEMPS WL BE STEADY OR FALL. CAPES REMAIN HI THU NGT BUT LIS RISE WITH DRIER AIR MOVG IN AT LWR LYRS INTO NW ZONES. CHC TSRA IN ERN ZONES YET FRI. .EXTENDED... LONG RANGE MODELS IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT...SO STUCK WITH MRF FOR FORECAST. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE AND SFC HIGH HOLD OVER CWFA FOR WEEKEND...SO KEPT FORECAST DRY. UPPER LEVEL TROF QUICKLY MOVES THROUGH CWFA ON MON (SO KEPT CHC TSRA FOR MON)...WITH SFC HIGH AND UPPER LEVEL NW FLOW SETTING UP THEREAFTER. ALTHOUGH COULD SEE ARRIVAL OF NEXT SHORTWAVE FOR EVE OF 4TH...WITH TIMING IN NW FLOW DIFFICULT...WILL LEAVE DRY AT THIS TIME. AS FAR AS TEMPS...FMR AND MEX BOTH SIMILAR...BUT LEANED TOWARDS SLIGHTLY COOLER MEX NUMBERS. .FGF...NONE. HOPPES/NG
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.