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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 5, 2006Polk County, Minnesota; Grand Forks County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2006, 8:14 PM CDT for Polk County, Minnesota; Grand Forks County, North Dakota. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2006, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2006, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Polk County, MN, Grand Forks County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 5, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 281 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: 279 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 5, 7:38 PM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 7:38 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
738 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

.UPDATE...ZONE UPDATED FOR CONTINUING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS AND TO HANDLE DEVELOPING STORMS WEST OF RED
RIVER.

LOW LEVEL JET IS UNSUPPORTIVE FOR CONTINUING ELEVATED STORMS WELL
INTO THE NIGHT BUT THESE CAN CONTINUE FOR A FEW HOURS. HAVE KEPT
THUNDER IN GRIDS AS IS PAST MIDNIGHT WITH INSTABILITY CONTINUING
LATE BUT THINK ANYTHING WILL BE WEAKER.

&&

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

GV

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 7:02 AM CDT, 13 hours 12 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
702 AM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052>054-061215-
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-
702 AM CDT MON JUN 5 2006

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
ACROSS EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF
EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND ALL OF WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST
MINNESOTA. THE STORMS WILL MOST LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. ALSO ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE
STORMS WILL DEVELOP AFTER 1 PM ACROSS EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND
SHOULD WEAKEN BY MIDNIGHT OVER NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

HOPPES

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:31 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
731 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006

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

0715 PM     HAIL             5 E NIAGARA             48.00N 97.76W
06/05/2006  M0.88 INCH       GRAND FORKS        ND   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HAIL FELL FOR ABOUT 8 MINUTES UNTIL 723PM.

&&

BRAMER

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:37 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
737 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006

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

0710 PM     HAIL             5 E PETERSBURG          48.01N 97.89W
06/05/2006  M1.00 INCH       NELSON             ND   PUBLIC

&&

BRAMER

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:53 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
753 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006

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

0715 PM     HAIL             5 NNE BUFFALO           46.99N 97.51W
06/05/2006  M1.00 INCH       CASS               ND   PUBLIC

&&

GGUST

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:56 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
756 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006

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

0751 PM     HAIL             6 NW ARVILLA            47.98N 97.59W
06/05/2006  M0.75 INCH       GRAND FORKS        ND   NWS EMPLOYEE

&&

GGUST

Local storm report, Jun 5, 8:00 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson	57 min
Jun 5, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay	49 min
Jun 5, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall, Roseau	59 min
Jun 6, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Otter Tail, Wadena	46 min
Jun 5, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Ransom	41 min
Jun 5, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grand Forks	59 min
Jun 5, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Cass	56 min
Jun 5, 7:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Sargent	54 min
Jun 5, 7:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Grand Forks	67 min
Jun 5, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Steele, Traill	46 min
Jun 5, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Richland	67 min
Jun 5, 8:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Richland	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2006 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.