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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this heat advisory at Aug 25, 2013, 9:51 AM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota; Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota. It took effect at Aug 25, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2013, 9:51 AM CDT (14:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 25, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Grant County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:53 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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 340 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
- 2993 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Aug 25, 9:46 AM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 9:46 AM CDT, 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 6:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 659 AM CDT SUN AUG 25 2013 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-261200- 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-EDDY-NELSON-GRAND FORKS- GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- WESTERN WALSH- 659 AM CDT SUN AUG 25 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS IS POSSIBLE TODAY ROUGHLY SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BLACKMER NORTH DAKOTA TO DORAN MINNESOTA TO OYLEN MINNESOTA. THE STORMS WILL BE MOSTLY LIKELY AFTER THE NOON HOUR AND SHOULD BE OUT OF THE AREA BY MIDNIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND PRODUCE THE THEREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO THE HEAT INDEX WILL MAY APPROACH HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA IN GRANT COUNTY MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE HEAT INDEX MAY AGAIN APPROACH HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER GRANT COUNTY MINNESOTA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. HOPPES
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 25, 4:13 AM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
413 AM CDT SUN AUG 25 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0353 AM TSTM WND GST FARGO 46.88N 96.82W
08/25/2013 M59.00 MPH CASS ND ASOS
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JRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 53 min |
| Aug 24, 10:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Pennington | 55 min |
| Aug 24, 11:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Beltrami | 67 min |
| Aug 25, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami | 52 min |
| Aug 25, 3:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay, Norman | 53 min |
| Aug 25, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Mahnomen, Norman | 64 min |
| Aug 25, 5:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clearwater, Hubbard | 48 min |
| Aug 25, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard | 56 min |
| Aug 25, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Hubbard | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 3:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Barnes | 53 min |
| Aug 25, 3:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Cass | 64 min |
| Aug 25, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass | 66 min |
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.