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Special Weather Statement, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 5, 2016Beltrami County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2016, 4:34 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 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: Jul 5, 2016, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND

County Beltrami County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 Jul 5, 3:45 PM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:45 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 6:53 AM CDT, 9 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
653 AM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016

MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052>054-061200-
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-
653 AM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHEAST THIS
AFTERNOON...

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON OVER
FAR SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE
FAVORED LOCATION FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM
WAHPETON TO PARK RAPIDS. STORM INITIATION IS EXPECTED AT 3PM OR
AFTER AND STORMS SHOULD EXIT THE REGION BY 7PM CDT. THE PRIMARY
HAZARD WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 4:34 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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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
Jul 4, 7:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Roseau	46 min
Jul 4, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay	47 min
Jul 4, 8:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Lake of the Woods	57 min
Jul 4, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Becker	43 min
Jul 4, 10:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Otter Tail	64 min
Jul 5, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grant	43 min
Jul 4, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grand Forks, Traill	22 min
Jul 4, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Barnes, Cass, Ransom, Richland, Steele	47 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.