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Special Weather Statement, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this special weather statement at Jun 14, 2012, 2:08 AM CDT for 5 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 37 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
- Jun 14, 2012, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2012, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Cass County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:13 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 1191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
201
WWUS83 KFGF 140708
SPSFGF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
208 AM CDT THU JUN 14 2012
NDZ027-029-030-038-039-049-052-053-140745-
BARNES ND-CASS ND-GRAND FORKS ND-RANSOM ND-RICHLAND ND-SARGENT
ND-STEELE ND-TRAILL ND-
208 AM CDT THU JUN 14 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN GRAND FORKS COUNTY IN
NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...AND RICHLAND...TRAILL...EASTERN STEELE...
EASTERN SARGENT...EASTERN RANSOM...CASS AND EASTERN BARNES COUNTIES
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA UNTIL 245 AM CDT...
AT 201 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF FINLEY
TO 16 MILES WEST OF CASSELTON TO LISBON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45
MPH.
HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS.
THE STORMS WILL EXTEND FROM...
NORTHWOOD TO MAYVILLE TO NEAR FARGO TO WEST OF WAHPETON AROUND 240
AM CDT.
FOR MOTORISTS ON INTERSTATE 29...THE STORMS WILL BE BETWEEN...MILE
MARKERS 10 AND 128...
FOR MOTORISTS ON INTERSTATE 94...THE STORMS WILL BE BETWEEN NORTH
DAKOTA MILE MARKER 319 AND NORTH DAKOTA MILE MARKER 348...
BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME
SEVERE...OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 4776 9703 4753 9692 4692 9688 4608 9663
4600 9760 4679 9772 4740 9777 4773 9787
TIME...MOT...LOC 0705Z 257DEG 41KT 4759 9790 4744 9773
4686 9747 4638 9751
$$
DTRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Wilkin | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 4:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Grant | 36 min |
| Jun 14, 4:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 1:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Barnes, Ransom, Sargent | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Richland, Sargent | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 4:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Ransom, Richland | 48 min |
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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.