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Special Weather Statement, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 16, 2016Barnes County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT for Barnes County, North Dakota. It was in force for 60 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 16, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2016, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND

County Barnes County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2016-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 34 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2016-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
34 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-319 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1366 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 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 Jul 16, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 7:11 AM CDT, 10 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
711 AM CDT SAT JUL 16 2016

MNZ001>003-007-013>016-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024-
026>030-038-039-049-052>054-171215-
WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-WEST MARSHALL-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-EAST POLK-
NORTH CLEARWATER-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-
711 AM CDT SAT JUL 16 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

DURING THE DAY EXPECT AN INCREASING CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS. LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING A FEW STORMS
MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH HIGHEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND HIGH
WIND THREAT BEING ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 94, INCLUDING
VALLEY CITY, FARGO, WAHPETON, AND FERGUS FALLS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

RISK OF NON-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY WITH ISOLATED CHANCES AT
TIMES DURING NEXT WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY.

MNZ004>006-008-009-017-171215-
KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-
SOUTH BELTRAMI-
711 AM CDT SAT JUL 16 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A FEW SHOWERS AROUND TODAY AND A CHANCE FOR A THUNDERSTORM. THREAT
FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND A THUNDERSTORM SUNDAY BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER
IS ANTICIPATED. CHANCE FOR A FEW STORMS CONTINUES AT TIMES INTO
NEXT WEEK AS WE GET WARMER.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

DTR

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 16, 11:25 AM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 5:15 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
515 PM CDT SAT JUL 16 2016

NDZ038-162315-
BARNES ND-
515 PM CDT SAT JUL 16 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL BARNES COUNTY UNTIL 615
PM CDT...

AT 514 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR ROGERS TO NEAR
ECKELSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  ROGERS AROUND 515 PM CDT.
  BALD HILL DAM AROUND 520 PM CDT.
  VALLEY CITY AROUND 535 PM CDT.
  ORISKA AROUND 550 PM CDT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA.

LAT...LON 4713 9771 4674 9771 4683 9837 4712 9817
TIME...MOT...LOC 2214Z 264DEG 33KT 4707 9814 4686 9830

GUST

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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.