1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 26, 7:30 PM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 830 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2003 .FORECAST DETAILS... WATER VAPOR IMAGERY CONFIRMING SHORTWAVE ENERGY FROM SOUTHEAST SASK DROPPING SOUTHEAST INTO REGION THIS EVENING. FEATURE IS ENHANCING LARGE SCALE ASCENT/AIDING SCATTERED CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. EXPECT ACTIVITY TO BE ON THE WANE AFTER DARK WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. INHERITED ZONES COVER ABOVE TRENDS WELL AND WILL NOT DEVIATE FROM THIS THINKING. WILL MONITOR MERCURY TRENDS DURING NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS TO DETERMINE IF ANY TWEAKING NEEDED IN THE TEMPERATURE DEPARTMENT. .FGF...NONE. BERG
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-261400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 605 AM CDT THU JUN 26 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. NONE OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ON FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA EARLY FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND SPREAD EASTWARD INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AND TUESDAY AS ANOTHER SYSTEM ENTERS THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. DONAVON
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 187 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:22 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck the NOAA weather radio tower and knocked the broadcast off the air.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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