Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2002, 5:17 PM CDT for Red Lake County, Minnesota. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2002, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Red Lake County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
084 WUUS53 KFGF 262217 SVRFAR MNC125-262300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 517 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RED LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. * UNTIL 600 PM CDT. * AT 513 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BROOKS...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THIEF RIVER FALLS...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS OF RED LAKE FALLS AT 520 PM. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MONDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4790 9611 4779 9613 4779 9588 4794 9584 8 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington, Red Lake | 44 min |
| Aug 26, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pennington, Red Lake | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk, Red Lake | 45 min |
| Aug 26, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington | 44 min |
| Aug 26, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Otter Tail | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 40 min |
| Aug 26, 5:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Red Lake | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Polk | 44 min |
| Aug 26, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.