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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Grand Forks, ND

August 26, 2021Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota; 4 counties in Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this high wind warning at Aug 26, 2021, 12:02 PM CDT for Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota; 4 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 3 hr. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 26, 2021, 12:02 PM CDT (17:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2021, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND

Counties Grant County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 26, 12:05 PM CDT	NON-TSTM WND GST 35	4 W Herman, MN	SUSTAINED WINDS AT 35 GUSTING TO 48 MPH WERE RECORDED AT THE MNDOT RWIS STATION ALONG HIGHWAY 27.
Aug 26, 12:24 PM CDT	HIGH SUST WINDS 35	5 Se Fergus Falls, MN	SUSTAINED WINDS AT 35 GUSTING TO 51 MPH WERE RECORDED AT THE MNDOT RWIS STATION ALONG INTERSTATE 94 NEAR MP62.
Aug 26, 12:30 PM CDT	NON-TSTM WND DMG	Forman, ND	NON THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE ESTIMATED NEAR 60MPH. SMALL TREES DOWN, WITH SMALL BRANCHES.
Aug 26, 12:40 PM CDT	NON-TSTM WND DMG	Foxhome, MN	LARGE TREE BRANCHES AND LIMBS BLOWN DOWN AROUND TOWN, WITH WAKE LOW WINDS FOLLOWING AFTER THE EARLIER RAINFALL. ESTIMATED WIND GUSTS AT 60 TO 70 MPH.
Aug 26, 12:47 PM CDT	NON-TSTM WND DMG	6 Nne Battle Lake, MN	A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN ONTO A CABIN NEAR BLANCHE LAKE. TIME ESTIMATED BASED ON NEARBY WIND SENSORS. WINDS AT 35 TO 40 MPH GUSTING FROM 50 TO 55 MPH WERE COMMON THROUGHOUT THE BATTLE AND OTTER TAIL LAKES AREA FROM 1235 PM THROUGH 1 PM.
Aug 26, 1:15 PM CDT	HIGH SUST WINDS 39	2 W Wadena, MN	SUSTAINED WINDS AT 39 GUSTING TO 48 MPH WERE RECORDED FROM 115 THROUGH 120 PM CDT.
Aug 26, 1:20 PM CDT	NON-TSTM WND DMG	Wadena, MN	LARGE 3 TO 5 INCH DIAMETER TREE BRANCHES AND LIMBS WERE BROKEN DOWN BY THE WAKE-LOW WIND. ORIGINAL REPORT POSTED VIA MPING. TIME ADJUSTED BASED ON LOCAL WIND SENSORS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 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.

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: 1092 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 365 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 490 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

850 
WWUS73 KFGF 261702
NPWFGF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Grand Forks ND
1202 PM CDT Thu Aug 26 2021

MNZ029>032-040-NDZ052-053-262000-
/O.NEW.KFGF.HW.W.0004.210826T1702Z-210826T2000Z/
Wilkin-West Otter Tail-East Otter Tail-Wadena-Grant-Sargent-
Richland-
Including the cities of Breckenridge, Fergus Falls, Perham, 
New York Mills, Parkers Prairie, Henning, Battle Lake, Wadena, 
Menahga, Elbow Lake, Hoffman, Ashby, Herman, Barrett, Gwinner, 
Milnor, Forman, Rutland, and Wahpeton
1202 PM CDT Thu Aug 26 2021

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...

* WHAT...Wind gusts ranging from 50 to 70 mph following shower and
  thunderstorm activity.

* WHERE...In Minnesota, Wilkin, West Otter Tail, East Otter 
  Tail, Wadena and Grant Counties. In North Dakota, Sargent and 
  Richland Counties.

* WHEN...Until 3 PM CDT this afternoon.

* IMPACTS...High winds may move loose debris, damage property 
  and cause power outages. Travel will be difficult especially 
  for high profile vehicles.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A brief period of damaging wind gusts is
  possible following today's shower and thunderstorm activity.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

People are urged to secure loose objects that could be blown
around or damaged by the wind.

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 2:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Ransom	48 min

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Minnesota, 2021 High Wind Warnings in North Dakota, 2021 Every high wind warning in 2021

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.