Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2002, 11:11 AM CDT for Beltrami County, Minnesota. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2002, 11:11 AM CDT (16:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2002, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Beltrami County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 212 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:12 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 11:15 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Waskish, 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
093 WUUS53 KFGF 011611 SVRFAR MNC007-011645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1110 AM CDT MON JUL 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL BELTRAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. * UNTIL 1145 AM CDT. * AT 1107 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WASKISH...OR ABOUT 52 MILES NORTH OF BEMIDJI...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN BELTRAMI COUNTY. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4824 9477 4799 9475 4797 9444 4837 9448 21 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 Jul 1, 10:30 AM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 10:30 AM CDT, 41 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 1030 AM CDT MON JUL 1 2002 A BROAD FLAT TROUGH WAS ALONG THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER. WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS A SHORT WAVE NEAR LAKE YWG AND ANOTHER OVER FAR SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN. POCKET OF HIGH THETA-E AIR WAS ACROSS EASTERN SD THIS MORNING AND WILL SHIFT INTO WEST CENTAL MN THIS AFTERNOON. SURFACE LOW WAS OVER NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON. SURFACE DEWPOINTS HAVE JUMPED INTO THE UPPER 60S IN SOUTHEAST ND ALREADY. STRONG SURFACE MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE WAS CENTERED OVER JMS. CONVERGENCE MAXIMUM APPEARS TO STAY NORTH OF SURFACE LOW. HOWEVER 88D HAS STRONG STORMS FARTHER N ALONG THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER. ETA MODEL SOUNDING AT ABR AND BIS MATCHES REASONABLY WELL WITH THE MORNING OBSERVED. HOWEVER THE OBSERVED SOUNDING AT GGW WAS MUCH DRIER AROUND 700 MB THAN WHAT THE ETA HAD FORECAST. KMVX 88D VAD WIND SHOWING GOOD INFLOW THIS MORNING WITH SE WIND AT 30 KNOTS. KBIS VAD WIND HAD A BACKING PROFILE. GOING FORECAST LOOKS REASONABLE. WILL CHECK ZONES. .FGF...NONE HOPPES
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 6:43 AM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-011400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 643 AM CDT MON JUL 1 2002 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING FOR EXTREME EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SYNOPSIS... LOW PRESSURE OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA WILL MOVE EAST AND BE LOCATED NEAR FARGO BY MID AFTERNOON...WITH A WARM FRONT EAST FROM THE LOW ACROSS NORTHERN MINNESOTA. THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BE NEAR BEMIDJI BY EARLY EVENING. WARM AND MOIST AIR WILL RAPIDLY RETURN NORTH AHEAD OF THIS LOW INTO FAR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA TODAY. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME VERY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON NEAR THE WARM FRONT AND AREA OF LOW PRESSURE CAUSING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE COVERAGE OF SEVERE WEATHER IS UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME AS WARM TEMPERATURES IN THE MID LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE MAY INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. AREA OF CONCERN... LOCATIONS FROM THE RED RIVER VALLEY AND POINTS EAST THROUGH NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. TIME... 2 PM UNTIL 8 PM. TYPE OF HAZARD... DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE THREAT FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES DOES EXIST ESPECIALLY NEAR THE LOW AND WARM FRONT. RIDDLE NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 10:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 38 min |
| Jul 1, 11:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 44 min |
| Jul 1, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 12:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 51 min |
| Jul 1, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.