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Special Weather Statement, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2016, 11:57 PM CDT for Wilkin County, Minnesota. It was in force for 63 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, 11:57 PM CDT (04:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
County Wilkin County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 687 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1298 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 515 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted.
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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, 11:54 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 11:54 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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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
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 7:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 706 PM CDT SAT JUL 16 2016 NDZ049-170100- RANSOM ND- 706 PM CDT SAT JUL 16 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN RANSOM COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 706 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LISBON...OR 33 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VALLEY CITY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SHELDON...VENLO AND ANSELM AROUND 720 PM CDT. MCLEOD AROUND 730 PM CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. LAT...LON 4640 9778 4658 9778 4659 9729 4636 9728 TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 271DEG 36KT 4649 9767 GUST
Local storm report, Jul 16, 7:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 11:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Becker | 63 min |
| Jul 16, 7:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Ransom | 54 min |
| Jul 16, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 24 min |
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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.