Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 10, 2002Benson County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2002, 8:13 AM CDT for Benson County, North Dakota. It was in force for 47 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 10, 2002, 8:13 AM CDT (13:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2002, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Benson County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2002-06-10Temperature 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2002-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 146 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KFGF 101313
SVRFAR
NDC005-101400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
812 AM CDT MON JUN 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  NORTH CENTRAL BENSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

* UNTIL 900 AM CDT.

* AT 808 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HARLOW...OR ABOUT 27 MILES
  WEST OF DEVILS LAKE...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...

  BRINSMADE AT 815 AM AND
  LEEDS AT 820 AM.

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

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM MONDAY
MORNING FOR NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4807 9960 4804 9934 4833 9923 4834 9957


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 6:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBenson, Towner53 min
Jun 10, 6:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRamsey42 min
Jun 10, 7:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCavalier, Towner52 min
Jun 10, 7:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRamsey31 min
Jun 10, 9:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBenson, Ramsey38 min
Jun 10, 9:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFPembina3 hr
Jun 10, 11:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCavalier51 min
Jun 10, 1:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFCavalier, Pembina4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 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.