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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this high wind watch at May 12, 2022, 1:29 PM CDT for 9 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at May 13, 2022, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2022, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 13, 2022, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 13, 2022, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Towner County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at May 12, 12:37 PM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 12:37 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Richland | 6 hr |
| May 11, 8:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Walsh | 29 min |
| May 12, 4:22 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more | 20 hr |
| May 12, 8:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Richland | 48 min |
| May 12, 9:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Benson, Eddy, Griggs, Nelson, Ramsey | 25 min |
| May 12, 9:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FGF | Eddy, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson | 6 days |
| May 12, 10:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Cavalier, Pembina, Ramsey, Walsh | 66 min |
| May 12, 5:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Griggs | 51 min |
| May 12, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Steele | 52 min |
| May 12, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Grand Forks | 47 min |
| May 12, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 58 min |
| May 12, 6:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Grand Forks | 50 min |
| May 12, 1:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FGF | Clay, Wilkin | 66 hr |
| May 12, 11:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FGF | Roseau | 6 days |
| May 12, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.