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Special Weather Statement, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 29, 2016Lake of the Woods County, Roseau County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this special weather statement at Jun 29, 2016, 2:05 PM CDT for Lake of the Woods County, Roseau County, Minnesota. It was in force for 55 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 29, 2016, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND

Counties Lake of the Woods County, MN, Roseau County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 224 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 1335 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 29, 12:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 12:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 5:38 AM CDT, 8 hours 27 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
538 AM CDT WED JUN 29 2016

MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052>054-301045-
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 COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON-
GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-
RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY-
538 AM CDT WED JUN 29 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE AREA OR ROUGHLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM
BEMIDJI MN TO NEW ROCKFORD ND. LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE
STORMS WILL BE MOST LIKELY FROM 3 PM TO 8 PM CDT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

HOPPES

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 2:05 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
205 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2016

MNZ005-006-292000-
LAKE OF THE WOODS MN-ROSEAU MN-
205 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR ROSEAU AND CENTRAL LAKE OF THE
WOODS COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM CDT...

AT 201 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 37 MILES EAST OF OAK ISLAND
TO NEAR NOYES...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE LAKE OF THE
WOODS... INTO WARROAD BY 230 PM CDT... AND INTO ROSEAU... WILLIAMS
AND BAUDETTE AROUND 3 PM CDT.

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4866 9449 4874 9628 4900 9638 4900 9516
      4907 9515 4905 9473 4888 9468 4878 9469
      4870 9451
TIME...MOT...LOC 1901Z 312DEG 52KT 4923 9403 4905 9715

GUST

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Kittson	53 min
Jun 29, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Roseau	64 min
Jun 29, 3:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Kittson	56 min
Jun 29, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Kittson	62 min
Jun 29, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Barnes	23 min
Jun 29, 6:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Barnes, Ransom	66 min
Jun 29, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Barnes, Ransom	48 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Minnesota, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.