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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 27, 2001Kittson County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 45 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 27, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kittson County, MN

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 254 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2001-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 20 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2001-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2049 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KFGF 280015
SVRFAR
MNC069-280100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS
715 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA...

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 712 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF LAKE BRONSON...OR ABOUT 36
  MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAFTON...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LAKE BRONSON AT 740 PM CDT...

REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOEyS WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 4878 9694 4861 9685 4868 9644 4889 9654

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 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.