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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 5, 2003Otter Tail County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2003, 2:44 PM CDT for Otter Tail County, Minnesota. It was in force for 46 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 5, 2003, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Otter Tail County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 245 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 19 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 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 051944
SVRFGF
MNC111-052030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
243 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  OTTER TAIL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT.

* AT 240 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CARLISLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  FERGUS FALLS...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...

  ELIZABETH AT 245 PM...
  FERGUS FALLS AT 255 PM...
  EDWARDS AT 305 PM AND
  UNDERWOOD AT 325 PM.

HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS IS LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA.

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

LAT...LON 4644 9629 4626 9629 4622 9569 4647 9568

$$

DONAVON/30

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRoseau37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.