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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 26, 2021Beltrami County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2021, 9:07 PM CDT for Beltrami County, Minnesota. It was in force for 23 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 26, 2021, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2021, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Beltrami County, MN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 26, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 2004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 306 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

898 
WUUS53 KFGF 270207
SVRFGF
MNC007-270230-
/O.NEW.KFGF.SV.W.0070.210727T0207Z-210727T0230Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Grand Forks ND
907 PM CDT Mon Jul 26 2021

The National Weather Service in Grand Forks has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southeastern Beltrami County in north central Minnesota...

* Until 930 PM CDT.

* At 907 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Decker Lake,
  or 26 miles northeast of Bemidji, moving east at 30 mph.

  HAZARD...Quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
  southeastern Beltrami County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 4763 9455 4781 9451 4781 9442 4761 9442
TIME...MOT...LOC 0207Z 279DEG 28KT 4771 9442 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

Rick

1 follow-up statement

002 
WWUS53 KFGF 270222
SVSFGF

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Grand Forks ND
922 PM CDT Mon Jul 26 2021

MNC007-270232-
/O.EXP.KFGF.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-210727T0230Z/
Beltrami MN-
922 PM CDT Mon Jul 26 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BELTRAMI COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 930 PM CDT...
        
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for
north central Minnesota.

LAT...LON 4763 9455 4781 9451 4781 9442 4761 9442
TIME...MOT...LOC 0222Z 279DEG 28KT 4769 9428 

$$

Rick

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Beltrami	49 min
Jul 26, 11:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FGF	Mahnomen, Norman	59 min
Jul 26, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Becker, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen	38 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.