Alert archive / North Dakota / Fire Weather Watches in 2021
Fire Weather Watch 1, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this fire weather watch at Mar 26, 2021, 2:51 PM CDT for 17 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Mar 29, 2021, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2021, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 29, 2021, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2021, 3:13 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.