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Special Weather Statement, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 19, 2012Becker County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this special weather statement at Jun 19, 2012, 2:28 PM CDT for Becker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 62 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 19, 2012, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2012, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND

County Becker County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 19, 10:58 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 10:58 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 5:41 AM CDT, 8 hours 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 12:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
1226 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2012

MNZ024-028-031-032-191815-
EAST BECKER MN-EAST OTTER TAIL MN-HUBBARD MN-WADENA MN-
1226 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN BECKER...
NORTHEASTERN OTTER TAIL...NORTHERN WADENA AND SOUTHERN HUBBARD
COUNTIES UNTIL 115 PM CDT...

AT 1220 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF MENAHGA...OR 27 MILES EAST OF DETROIT
LAKES...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THE STORM...ALONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

THE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
PARK RAPIDS AND HUBBARD AROUND 1235 PM CDT.
HUNTERSVILLE AROUND 1240 PM CDT.
EMMAVILLE AND DORSET AROUND 1245 PM CDT.
NEVIS AND BADOURA AROUND 1250 PM CDT.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME
SEVERE...OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4680 9466 4680 9477 4671 9478 4654 9524
      4690 9544 4720 9466 4705 9465
TIME...MOT...LOC 1726Z 244DEG 47KT 4675 9518

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 2:28 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
228 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2012

MNZ002-003-022-023-027-028-192030-
CLAY MN-EAST BECKER MN-MAHNOMEN MN-NORMAN MN-SOUTH CLEARWATER MN-WEST
BECKER MN-
228 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN CLEARWATER...BECKER...
NORTHEASTERN CLAY...EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NORMAN AND SOUTHERN MAHNOMEN
COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM CDT...

AT 225 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF LAKE PARK...OR 19 MILES WEST OF DETROIT
LAKES...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THE STORM...ALONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

THE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
AUDUBON AROUND 235 PM CDT.
DETROIT LAKES AND WESTBURY AROUND 240 PM CDT.
RICHWOOD...OGEMA AND CALLAWAY AROUND 245 PM CDT.
WHITE EARTH...WAUBUN AND ROCHERT AROUND 250 PM CDT.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME
SEVERE...OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4750 9521 4691 9520 4674 9626 4709 9632
TIME...MOT...LOC 1928Z 244DEG 47KT 4690 9618

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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 19, 12:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Hubbard	49 min
Jun 19, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Becker, Otter Tail	59 min
Jun 19, 3:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Hubbard	49 min
Jun 19, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Becker, Clearwater, Hubbard	27 min
Jun 19, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Clay	64 min
Jun 19, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Hubbard	44 min
Jun 19, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Grant	52 min
Jun 19, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Becker	60 min
Jun 19, 4:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Richland	57 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Minnesota, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.