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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 266, NWS Grand Forks, ND

September 9, 2005Barnes County, Cass County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 2005, 10:02 AM CDT for Barnes County, Cass County, North Dakota. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 9, 2005, 10:02 AM CDT (15:02 UTC)
Expired: Sep 9, 2005, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 9, 10:02 AM CDT	HAIL 0.88	4 Se Pillsbury, ND

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 1688 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -419 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1328 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KFGF 091502
SVRFGF
NDC003-017-091600-
/O.NEW.KFGF.SV.W.0266.050909T1502Z-050909T1600Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
1002 AM CDT FRI SEP 9 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA
  EXTREME NORTHWESTERN CASS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 1100 AM CDT.

* AT 1000 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THE
  STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF PILLSBURY...OR 15 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF VALLEY CITY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PILLSBURY AT 1010 AM

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

LAT...LON 4717 9809 4698 9797 4698 9772 4724 9772
      4723 9806

$$

JDS/LK

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KFGF 091517
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
1017 AM CDT FRI SEP 9 2005

NDC003-017-091600-
/O.CON.KFGF.SV.W.0266.000000T0000Z-050909T1600Z/
BARNES ND-CASS ND-
1017 AM CDT FRI SEP 9 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1100 AM CDT FOR
NORTHERN CASS AND NORTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTIES...

AT 1013 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THE STORM
WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF PILLSBURY...OR 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF
VALLEY CITY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PAGE BY 1035 AM CDT...
  8 MILES NORTH OF AYR BY 1040 AM CDT...
  ERIE BY 1050 AM CDT...
  7 MILES WEST OF HUNTER AND 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARTHUR BY 1100 AM
  CDT...

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

LAT...LON 4717 9809 4698 9797 4697 9689 4723 9686
      4723 9806

$$

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000 
WWUS53 KFGF 091539
SVSFGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
1038 AM CDT FRI SEP 9 2005

NDC003-017-091600-
/O.CON.KFGF.SV.W.0266.000000T0000Z-050909T1600Z/
BARNES ND-CASS ND-
1038 AM CDT FRI SEP 9 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1100 AM CDT FOR
NORTHERN CASS AND NORTHEASTERN BARNES COUNTIES...

AT 1034 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THE
STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF PAGE...OR 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF
VALLEY CITY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

NICKEL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PILLSBURY AT 
1002 AM CDT.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  8 MILES NORTHWEST OF ERIE BY 1055 AM CDT...

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

LAT...LON 4717 9809 4698 9797 4697 9689 4723 9686
      4723 9806

$$

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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 8, 8:30 PM CDT, 13 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 8:30 PM CDT, 13 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
830 PM CDT THU SEP 8 2005

FORECAST CHALLENGE FOR UPDATE CONCERNS TEMPERATURES AND PCPN CHANCES.

SKIES HAVE PRETTY MUCH CLEARED OFF EXCEPT FOR FAR NORTH. BASED ON
FLOW AM NOT ANTICIPATING MUCH IN WAY OF CLOUD COVER OVERNIGHT.
NAM/GFS BOTH INDICATING INCREASING WARM ADVECTION/ISENTROPIC LIFT
DURING OVERNIGHT. LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES TO NEARLY 30KT HOWEVER
LITTLE IN THE WAY OF SPEED OR DIRECTIONAL CONVERGENCE BLO 800MB.
ALSO UPPER SUPPORT AND DEEP LAYERED MOISTURE LACKING. AS A RESULT
WILL MAINTAIN DRY FORECAST. STEADY SE FLOW AND WARM ADVECTION SHOULD
MAKE FOR MILD NIGHT. OVERALL FORECAST OK WITH ONLY SLIGHT
ADJUSTMENTS MADE.

&&

.FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ND...NONE.
MN...NONE.
&&

VOELKER

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 9, 6:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
615 AM CDT FRI SEP 9 2005

MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052>054-101115-
WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-
WEST MARSHALL-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-
EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN-
SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-
WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER-
PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON-
GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-
RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY-
615 AM CDT FRI SEP 9 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING AND THEN
THIS AFTERNOON NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM CAVALIER NORTH DAKOTA TO
WADENA MINNESOTA. THEY WILL GENERALLY BE NON-SEVERE BUT ONE OR TWO
MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...
SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

GV

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 9, 8:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
840 AM CDT FRI SEP 09 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0715 AM     HAIL             5 NE SHARON             47.65N 97.82W
09/09/2005  0.75 INCH        STEELE             ND   PUBLIC

&&

JDS

Local storm report, Sep 9, 9:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
900 AM CDT FRI SEP 09 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0730 AM     HAIL             8 S LOGAN CENTER        47.69N 97.82W
09/09/2005  1.50 INCH        GRAND FORKS        ND   PUBLIC

            HAIL FELL FOR ABOUT 4 MINUTES AND COVERED THE GROUND.

&&

GGUST

Local storm report, Sep 9, 9:08 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
908 AM CDT FRI SEP 09 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0740 AM     HAIL             4 WSW NORTHWOOD         47.71N 97.65W
09/09/2005  0.75 INCH        GRAND FORKS        ND   PUBLIC

&&

GGUST

Local storm report, Sep 9, 9:15 AM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
915 AM CDT FRI SEP 09 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0735 AM     HAIL             7 NNW GOLDEN LAKE       47.67N 97.69W
09/09/2005  1.25 INCH        STEELE             ND   PUBLIC

0735 AM     HAIL             9 SSE LOGAN CENTER      47.68N 97.74W
09/09/2005  1.25 INCH        GRAND FORKS        ND   PUBLIC

0745 AM     HAIL             2 WSW NORTHWOOD         47.72N 97.61W
09/09/2005  0.75 INCH        GRAND FORKS        ND   PUBLIC

&&

GGUST

Local storm report, Sep 9, 9:41 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
941 AM CDT FRI SEP 09 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0645 AM     HAIL             3 SE KLOTEN             47.69N 98.03W
09/09/2005  0.75 INCH        NELSON             ND   PUBLIC

&&

JDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 9, 6:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Eddy	24 min
Sep 9, 6:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Griggs, Nelson	55 min
Sep 9, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Steele	34 min
Sep 9, 7:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Benson, Ramsey	55 min
Sep 9, 7:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grand Forks	57 min
Sep 9, 9:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Cass	38 min
Sep 9, 9:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Traill	50 min
Sep 9, 10:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Cass, Traill	11 hr
Sep 9, 10:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Traill	59 min
Sep 9, 10:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Cass	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.