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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 2, 2003Becker County, Hubbard County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2003, 5:44 PM CDT for Becker County, Hubbard County, Minnesota. It was in force for 61 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: Jul 2, 2003, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Becker County, MN, Hubbard County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 2, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 774 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -221 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

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The text

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

029 
WUUS53 KFGF 022244
SVRFGF
MNC005-057-022345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
543 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  CENTRAL HUBBARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND
  NORTHEASTERN BECKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT.

* AT 539 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TWO INLETS...OR ABOUT 33 MILES            
  NORTHEAST OF DETROIT LAKES...MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH.  
  OTHER SEVERE THUNDERSORMS WERE DEVELOPING 10 MILES NORTH OF PARK
  RAPIDS. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...

  EMMAVILLE AT 605 PM...
  DORSET AT 610 PM...
  NEVIS AT 620 PM AND
  AKELEY AT 635 PM.

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

LAT...LON 4713 9534 4690 9529 4692 9463 4717 9467

$$

DTR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall, Polk	45 min
Jul 2, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Polk	43 min
Jul 2, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Roseau	44 min
Jul 2, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Pennington, Polk, Red Lake	47 min
Jul 2, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Norman	38 min
Jul 2, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods, Roseau	61 min
Jul 2, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard	59 min
Jul 2, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Becker	51 min
Jul 2, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Hubbard	45 min
Jul 2, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Becker	48 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.