Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2005, 10:02 PM CDT for Ransom County, Sargent County, North Dakota. It was in force for 28 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
- May 7, 2005, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2005, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ransom County, ND, Sargent County, ND
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KFGF 080302 SVRFGF NDC073-081-080400- /O.NEW.KFGF.SV.W.0013.050508T0302Z-050508T0400Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1002 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN RANSOM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA NORTHEASTERN SARGENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT. * AT 1001 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DE LAMERE...OR 36 MILES WEST OF WAHPETON... MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MCLEOD AT 1010 PM 6 MILES EAST OF VENLO AT 1020 PM 9 MILES EAST OF ANSELM AT 1025 PM 9 MILES EAST OF SHELDON AT 1030 PM REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4618 9758 4616 9730 4660 9730 4660 9763 $$ GV
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KFGF 080330 SVSFGF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 1028 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 NDC073-081-080338- /O.CAN.KFGF.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050508T0400Z/ RANSOM ND-SARGENT ND- 1028 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN SARGENT AND EASTERN RANSOM COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... AT 1028 PM CDT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF EASTERN RANSOM AND NORTHEASTERN SARGENT COUNTIES. SO THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4618 9758 4616 9730 4660 9730 4660 9763 $$ GV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Sargent | 61 min |
| May 7, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cass | 67 min |
| May 7, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 45 min |
| May 7, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Steele | 50 min |
| May 7, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 62 min |
| May 8, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 48 min |
| May 8, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 47 min |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 45 min |
| May 8, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 50 min |
| May 8, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Nelson | 48 min |
| May 8, 6:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 13 hr |
| May 8, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 47 min |
| May 8, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Eddy | 47 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.