Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 22, 2002Beltrami County, Clearwater County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2002, 3:01 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Clearwater County, Minnesota. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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, 3:01 PM CDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2002, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Beltrami County, MN, Clearwater County, MN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 22, 3:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Bemidji, 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFGF 222001
SVRFAR
MNC007-029-222045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
300 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHERN BELTRAMI COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND EAST       
  CENTRAL CLEARWATER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT.

* AT 259 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOLWAY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  WEST OF BEMIDJI...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...

  BEMIDJI AT 305 PM...
  LAVINIA AT 310 PM AND
  TURTLE RIVER AT 315 PM.

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

LAT...LON 4751 9528 4743 9521 4752 9453 4784 9516


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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 8:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall	50 min
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, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Hubbard	34 min
Jun 22, 3:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Hubbard	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2002 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.