Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2002, 5:54 PM CDT for Griggs County, Steele County, North Dakota. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 11, 2002, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2002, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Griggs County, ND, Steele County, ND
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 5:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Hannaford, ND | |
| Aug 11, 6:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Finley, ND | Branches were blown down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
563 WUUS53 KFGF 112254 SVRFAR NDC039-091-112345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 553 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN GRIGGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHERN STEELE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. * UNTIL 645 PM CDT. * AT 549 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER REVERE...OR ABOUT 34 MILES NORTHWEST OF VALLEY CITY...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WALUM AT 555 PM... HANNAFORD AT 600 PM... COOPERSTOWN AT 610 PM AND FINLEY AT 645 PM. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4741 9850 4725 9837 4728 9766 4760 9768 06 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 51 min |
| Aug 11, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Nelson, Ramsey | 37 min |
| Aug 11, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 61 min |
| Aug 11, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson, Ramsey, Walsh | 43 min |
| Aug 11, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass, Traill | 56 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.