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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this high wind watch at Mar 13, 2025, 3:00 PM CDT for 8 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Mar 15, 2025, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2025, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 15, 2025, 12:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2025, 2:01 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties 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), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 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 Mar 13, 2:52 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 2:52 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 3:00 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 23 hr |
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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.