Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 8:49 PM CDT for Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 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 27, 2003, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wilkin County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
327 WUUS53 KFGF 280149 SVRFGF MNC167-280230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 849 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WILKIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. * UNTIL 930 PM CDT. * AT 843 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF KENT...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF WAHPETON...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... KENT NOW... EVERDELL AT 925 PM AND FOXHOME AT 930 PM. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4661 9664 4643 9671 4617 9628 4649 9631 $$ DONAVON
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 Jun 27, 7:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 7:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 715 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 .FORECAST DETAILS... WILL KEEP IT BRIEF WITH POCKETS OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE CWFA THIS EVENING. SHORTWAVE TROUGH/ASSOCIATED FAVORABLE LEFT EXIT REGION OF 100KT 250MB JET MAX PUNCHING SOUTHEAST THROUGH DAKOTAS ATTM. EXPECT SURFACE TROUGH CURRENTLY OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA TO PUNCH EAST AND SHIFT MAIN CONVECTIVE FOCUS INTO MY MINNESOTA COUNTIES LATER THIS EVENING. INHERITED FORECAST PRETTY MUCH HAS CURRENT CONVECTIVE TRENDS IN ORDER...THUS NO MAJOR REVISIONS PLANNED AT THE MOMENT. .FGF...NONE BERG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 6:05 AM CDT, 14 hours 44 minutes before
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-271300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 605 AM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 ...A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS ACROSS EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA TODAY AND TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA... NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON...TRACK INTO EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA BY LATE AFTERNOON...AND THEN MOVE INTO NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS EVENING. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE AND ITS ASSOCIATED FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT...PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN ALL BUT SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ON SATURDAY...AND FOR THE WHOLE AREA FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FGF/INDEX.HTML (ALL LOWER CASE) NG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 45 min |
| Jun 28, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 37 min |
| Jun 28, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 46 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.