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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 6, 2002Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2002, 6:07 PM CDT for Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 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
Jun 6, 2002, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lake of the Woods County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 212 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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.

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 12:00Z on 2002-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 17 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 12:00Z on 2002-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 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 062307
SVRFAR
MNC077-062330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
605 PM CDT THU JUN 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHERN LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT.

* AT 559 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF FAUNCE...OR ABOUT 29 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF ROSEAU...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...

  FAUNCE AT 615 PM AND
  CARP AT 625 PM.

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

LAT...LON 4869 9526 4841 9525 4839 9447 4870 9450

21

NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFLake of the Woods36 min
Jun 6, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFLake of the Woods29 min
Jun 6, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.