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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this high wind warning at Jul 21, 2014, 11:10 PM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota; Grand Forks County, Traill County, North Dakota. It was in force for 5 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
- Jul 21, 2014, 11:10 PM CDT (04:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2014, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Mahnomen County, MN, Norman County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Grand Forks County, ND, Traill County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 3234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
632 WWUS73 KFGF 220410 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 1110 PM CDT MON JUL 21 2014 MNZ001-002-013>015-022-NDZ027-030-220900- /O.NEW.KFGF.HW.W.0001.140722T0410Z-140722T0900Z/ WEST POLK-NORMAN-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-EAST POLK-MAHNOMEN- GRAND FORKS-TRAILL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROOKSTON...EAST GRAND FORKS... HALSTAD...THIEF RIVER FALLS...RED LAKE FALLS...FOSSTON... MAHNOMEN...GRAND FORKS...MAYVILLE 1110 PM CDT MON JUL 21 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT TUESDAY. * TIMING...STRONG NORTH WINDS HAVE DEVELOPED WEST OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. A STRONG SURFACE LOW HAS DEVELOPED...AND WILL SLOWLY SHIFT EAST OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. * WINDS...NORTH GUSTING TO 60 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
1 follow-up statement
514 WWUS73 KFGF 220852 NPWFGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 352 AM CDT TUE JUL 22 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING TO EXPIRE AT 4 AM CDT... MNZ001-002-013>015-022-NDZ027-030-221000- /O.EXP.KFGF.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-140722T0900Z/ WEST POLK-NORMAN-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-EAST POLK-MAHNOMEN- GRAND FORKS-TRAILL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CROOKSTON...EAST GRAND FORKS... HALSTAD...THIEF RIVER FALLS...RED LAKE FALLS...FOSSTON... MAHNOMEN...GRAND FORKS...MAYVILLE 352 AM CDT TUE JUL 22 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 4 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING... NORTHERLY WINDS HAVE WEAKENED ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE DEPARTING SURFACE LOW. OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO NEAR 30 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE... BUT DAMAGING WIND IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. $$ ROGERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 57 min |
| Jul 21, 8:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Polk | 6 hr |
| Jul 21, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay, Norman, Polk | 46 min |
| Jul 21, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 33 min |
| Jul 21, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Mahnomen, Marshall and 4 more | 60 min |
| Jul 21, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and 3 more | 59 min |
| Jul 21, 10:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Grant | 46 min |
| Jul 21, 10:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 8 hr |
| Jul 21, 11:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Wadena | 29 min |
| Jul 22, 12:08 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 7 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:28 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Marshall | 42 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:28 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Marshall | 3 days |
| Jul 21, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 27 min |
| Jul 21, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Eddy, Griggs, Nelson, Steele | 64 min |
| Jul 21, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 60 min |
| Jul 21, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Eddy, Griggs, Nelson, Steele | 37 min |
| Jul 21, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Steele and 2 more | 66 min |
| Jul 21, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 46 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.