Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 2003, 11:56 PM CDT for Barnes County, North Dakota. It was in force for 49 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
- Sep 16, 2003, 11:56 PM CDT (04:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2003, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Barnes County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 436 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 170456 SVRFGF NDC003-170545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1156 PM CDT TUE SEP 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN BARNES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1245 AM CDT. * AT 1150 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VALLEY CITY...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... VALLEY CITY AT 1155 PM AND ORISKA AT 1205 AM. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4690 9820 4677 9801 4692 9773 4723 9773 $$ VOELKER/04
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 16, 8:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 8:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 835 PM CDT TUE SEP 16 2003 FORECAST CHALLENGE CONCERNS PCPN CHANCES AND TEMPERATURES. BROAD PRESSURE FALLS OVER ND AHEAD OF SURFACE LOW CURRENTLY OVER WESTERN SD. ASSOCIATED SURFACE WARM FRONT LIFTING INTO SOUTHERN ND WITH 60 DEGREE DEWPOINTS NOSING INTO FAR SOUTHERN FA. KMVX-88D VAD WIND PROFILE INDICATING WIND IN LOWER GATES INCREASING TO 40KT AND BECOMING MORE SOUTHERLY. SURFACE LOW AND ASSOCIATED WARM FRONT TO CONTINUE TO LIFT NORTHWARD OVERNIGHT. UPSTREAM KBIS-88D INDICATING BAND OF SHRA/TSRA LIFTING NE. WITH STRONG ISENTROPIC LIFT AND LOWEST CONDENSATION PRESSURE DEFICITS OVER FAR NORTH WILL CONTINUE TREND OF BEST CHANCES FOR ELEVATED CONVECTION THIS AREA OVERNIGHT WITH ISOLD SEVERE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. REGION TO REMAIN IN WARM SECTOR OVERNIGHT AND WITH CONTINUED MOIST FLUX AND WIND TEMPERATURES TO HOLD UP. WILL TAKE A LAST LOOK HOWEVER MAY NOSE TEMPERATURES UP SLIGHTLY ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHERN AREAS. .FGF...NONE. VOELEKR
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 16, 6:15 AM CDT, 17 hours 41 minutes before
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-161400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 615 AM CDT TUE SEP 16 2003 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA LATE TONIGHT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY ACROSS NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT ACROSS NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL FROM AROUND MIDNIGHT UNTIL 6 AM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND FROM 1 PM UNTIL 7 PM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TONIGHT AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. KELLENBENZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 11:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland | 37 min |
| Sep 17, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Traill | 35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.