Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2002, 8:25 AM CDT for Kittson County, Marshall County, Minnesota. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2002, 8:25 AM CDT (13:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2002, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kittson County, MN, Marshall County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 8:35 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Stephen, MN | |
| Jun 22, 8:38 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Donaldson, MN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 221325 SVRFAR MNC069-089-221415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 825 AM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KITTSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AND MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. * UNTIL 915 AM CDT. * AT 822 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STEPHEN...OR ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF GRAFTON...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ARGYLE AT 830 AM... STEPHEN AT 835 AM... DONALDSON AT 855 AM AND KENNEDY AT 900 AM. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4840 9712 4826 9685 4875 9644 4891 9693 BERG NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 11:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 39 min |
| Jun 22, 12:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 8 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Clearwater | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.