Alert archive / North Dakota / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this red flag warning at May 2, 2008, 12:17 PM CDT for 9 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2008, 12:17 PM CDT (17:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2008, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Benson County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Towner County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS83 KFGF 021717 RFWFGF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 1217 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA... .RED FLAG CRITERIA IS EXPECTED TO BE REACHED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE DEVILS LAKE BASIN AND NORTHERN RED RIVER VALLEY PORTIONS OF NORTH DAKOTA. STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO GUST TO 40 MPH AND MIX OUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. THIS MIXING WILL RESULT IN LOW MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. THESE CONDITIONS COMBINED WITH DRY FUELS WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026-027-054-030130- /O.NEW.KFGF.FW.W.0003.080502T1717Z-080503T0200Z/ TOWNER-CAVALIER-PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY- NELSON-GRAND FORKS-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY- 1217 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. DRY FUELS COMBINED WITH STRONG WINDS GUSTING TO 40 MPH AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ KAISER
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS83 KFGF 030210 RFWFGF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 910 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 2008 ...FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS DISSIPATE OVER EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA... .RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS HAVE CLIMBED TO OVER 20 PERCENT ACROSS NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND WILL CONTINUE RISING OVERNIGHT. WIND SPEEDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE AND THIS COMBINATION WILL ALLOW THE RED FLAG WARNING TO EXPIRE. NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026-027-054-030315- /O.EXP.KFGF.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080503T0200Z/ TOWNER-CAVALIER-PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY- NELSON-GRAND FORKS-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY- 910 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL NOT BE PRESENT OVERNIGHT. THE FIRE WEATHER WARNING IS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ WJB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:00 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Cass | 5 days |
| May 2, 4:15 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Eddy, Grand Forks, Griggs and 8 more | 17 hr |
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.