Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND

April 18, 2002Grant County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2002, 1:52 AM CDT for Grant County, Minnesota. It was in force for 38 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
Apr 18, 2002, 1:52 AM CDT (06:52 UTC)
Expired
Apr 18, 2002, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Grant County, MN

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 18, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2002-04-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2002-04-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 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 180652
SVRFAR
MNC051-180730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
151 AM CDT THU APR 18 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  GRANT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

* UNTIL 230 AM CDT.

* AT 149 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF NORCROSS...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF ELBOW LAKE...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...

  ELBOW LAKE AT 200 AM.

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

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM THURSDAY
MORNING FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

LAT...LON 4586 9627 4576 9605 4608 9577 4608 9609


55

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 18, 2:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFOtter Tail47 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.