Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2002, 12:45 AM CDT for Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 45 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 25, 2002, 12:45 AM CDT (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2002, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Richland County, ND
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 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 25, 1:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Lidgerwood, ND | Shingles were torn from a roof. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 2473 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 14.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
962 WUUS53 KFGF 250545 SVRFAR NDC077-250630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1244 AM CDT THU JUL 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN RICHLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. * UNTIL 130 AM CDT. * AT 1239 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF LIDGERWOOD...OR ABOUT 46 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAHPETON...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LIDGERWOOD AT 100 AM... STILES AT 105 AM... MANTADOR AT 110 AM AND HANKINSON AT 115 AM. THIS STORM MAY CONTAIN WINDS UP TO 70 MPH AND HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM THURSDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM THURSDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4617 9725 4589 9722 4588 9658 4622 9662 30 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 24, 8:45 PM CDT, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 8:45 PM CDT, 4 hours before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 845 PM CDT WED JUL 24 2002 FORECAST CHALLENGE FOR UPDATE CONCERNS MAINLY TSRA THREAT. AREAS OF SHRA/TSRA ASSOCIATED WITH MID LEVEL CIRCULATION FROM KMVX-88D AND WATER VAPOR LOOP SHIFTING EAST OUT OF FA. WDLY SCT TSRA CONTINUES TO DEVELOP ALONG WEAK CONVERGENCE ZONE FROM KMVX-88D RDA SE TO NEAR PKD. FARTHER UPSTREAM CONVECTIVE COMPLEX OVER WESTERN ND PROPAGATING SE ALONG AND NORTH OF SFC BOUNDARY FROM S CENTRAL SD TO NE MT IN INSTABILITY AXIS. TIMING WOULD HAVE TSRA INTO SW FA AROUND 05Z. LOW LEVEL JET ORIENTED FROM E NEBRASKA NORTHEAST THROUGH MN. WITH STRONG CONVECTION OVER SD/NE TO INTERCEPT MOIST FEED...ORIENTATION OF LOW LEVEL JET AND BOUNDARIES DO NOT EXPECT SEVERE STORMS OVER FORECAST AREA. WILL HOWEVER MAINTAIN CHANCES OF TSRA...MAINLY AFT MIDNIGHT OVER SOUTHERN FA. FARTHER NORTH WITH LACK OF LOW LEVEL FORCING AND WILL LOWER CHANCES TO ISOLD. WILL TAKE A LAST LOOK AT TEMPERATURES HOWEVER WITH SFC DEWPOINTS TO REMAIN IN THE 60S OVERNIGHT GENERAL FCST LOOKS GOOD. .FGF...NONE VOELKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.