Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2002, 7:53 AM CDT for Beltrami County, Hubbard County, Minnesota. It was in force for 67 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 9, 2002, 7:53 AM CDT (12:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2002, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Beltrami County, MN, Hubbard County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 091253 SVRFAR MNC007-057-091400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 753 AM CDT SUN JUN 9 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BELTRAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND HUBBARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. * UNTIL 900 AM CDT. * AT 747 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE LEADING EDGE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEMIDJI TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEMIDJI... MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... SOLWAY AT 800 AM... ISLAND LAKE AT 810 AM... WILTON AT 815 AM AND PUPOSKY AT 825 AM. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4786 9514 4716 9515 4711 9470 4781 9458 8 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 46 min |
| Jun 9, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 38 min |
| Jun 9, 12:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 38 min |
| Jun 9, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Mahnomen | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 2:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Polk | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman | 46 min |
| Jun 9, 4:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Norman | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman | 63 min |
| Jun 9, 5:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 5:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman | 63 min |
| Jun 9, 6:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 6:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 7:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 55 min |
| Jun 9, 7:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 7:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clearwater | 62 min |
| Jun 9, 10:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 39 min |
| Jun 9, 11:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 42 min |
| Jun 9, 5:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake | 4 hr |
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.