A cold front swept across the Lake of the Woods region on Thursday (19th) afternoon and produced a severe thunderstorm.
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A cold front swept across the Lake of the Woods region on Thursday (19th) afternoon and produced a severe thunderstorm.
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 19, 1:36 PM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 236 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008 .SHORT TERM... FCST CHALLENGE IS TSTM CHANCES. FOR THIS AFTN/EVE...WATER VAPOR SHOWS PRIMARY 500 MB LOW IN CNTRL CANADA IN NRN MANITOBA WITH 300 MB JET AND MAIN 500 MB VORTS TRAVELLING FROM CNTRL ALBERTA INTO SASK AND MANITOBA. SOME CONVECTION FIRING IN THIS AREA PER CANADIAN RADARS MOSTLY WELL NORTH OF THE BORDER...WITH CLOSEST ACTIVITY NORTH OF THE LAKE OF THE WOODS. MAIN SHORT WAVE FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVING INTO SRN MN AND AWAY FROM THE AREA WITH LIGHT NORTH-NORTHWEST WINDS OVER THE AREA. STILL DEW PTS A BIT HIGHER THAN YESTERDAY AND TEMPS ABOUT THE SAME (NR 80) SO CAPES THIS AFTN RUNNING 500 TO LOCALLY 1200 J/KG THIS AFTN/EARLY EVE. DESPITE LACK OF ANY REAL VORTS MOVING THRU...A FEW POCKETS OF CU/AC IS STARTING TO GENERATE ISOLD RW/-TRW IN NW ND AND ALSO JUST NORTH OF FLAG ISLAND WITH KMVX SHOWING ONE CELL NORTH OF GRAFTON ND. SO ENOUGH THREAT FOR LOW POPS MOSTLY RRV AND NW MN THRU 02Z TO INCLUDE MENTION OF PCPN. AS IN PREV NIGHTS...LIGHT WINDS OVERNIGHT AND SKIES WILL GENERALLY CLEAR ALLOWING TEMPS TO DROP BACK INTO THE LOW TO MID 50S. ON FRIDAY A STRONGER 500 MB VORT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST FROM CNTRL ALBERTA INTO NW ONTARIO AND NE MN FRIDAY NIGHT. A COOLER POCKET OF 500 MB TEMPS WILL MOVE INTO LAKE OF THE WOODS AREA BY 00Z SAT AND WITH ENOUGH WARMING CAPE VALUES REACH 1000 J/KG RRV EASTWARD. WILL CONTINUE LOW POP FOR AFTN/EVE TSRA THIS AREA FRIDAY. ON SATURDAY....SAME THREAT EXISTS...BUT ATTM WILL LEAVE OUT POPS PER COORDINATION WITH DLH/MPX AND MAINTAIN DRY FCST. GFS HAS CONTINUED 1000 J/KG CAPES IN RRV AND NW MN IN THE AFTN/EVE SO LOW POP MAY HAVE TO BE ADDED. HIGH PRESSURE AND WARMER AIR ALOFT WILL MOVE OVERHEAD ON SUNDAY AS 500 MB RIDGE BUILDS. THUS CAPE PROG VALUES FROM GFS ARE VERY LOW. .LONG TERM MON-THU... ALL THE MODELS ARE PRETTY CONSISTENT IN DEPICTING A 500MB RIDGE OVER THE NATIONS MIDSECTION ON MONDAY. THEREAFTER...THE MID LEVEL FLOW LOOKS TO TRANSITION BACK TO EITHER ZONAL OR A TAD NORTHWEST. ONE SHORT WAVE ON MONDAY/MONDAY NIGHT SEEMS TO BE PRETTY CONSISTENT IN THE MODELS AND HAVE INCREASED PCPN CHANCES ACCORDINGLY. MUCH MORE OF A MUDDLED PATTERN THEREAFTER...AND BASICALLY STUCK WITH A LOW PCPN CHANCE INTO TUE/TUE NIGHT AND DRY AFTER THAT. THE SFC REFLECTION FOR THE PCPN CHANCES MON INTO TUE LOOKS TO BE A WEAK TROUGH PASSING THRU THE NORTHERN PLAINS BETWEEN TWO AREAS OF LOW PRESSURE (ONE IN CANADA AND ONE FURTHER SOUTH). AS A RESULT...TEMPS DO LOOK TO STAY FAIRLY NORMAL FOR A CHANGE. && .AVIATION... PRETTY LIGHT WINDS WITH ONLY MID LEVEL CLOUDS ATTM. MAIN QUESTION IS WHETHER ANY CONVECTION GETS UNDERWAY LATER THIS AFTERNOON. MOST PARAMETERS ARE NOT TOO FAVORABLE FOR VERY MUCH PCPN COVERAGE...SO KEPT THE TAFS PRETTY LOW KEY. FOR THE MOST PART WINDS ARE LIGHT AND VARIABLE ALREADY AND SHOULD STAY THAT WAY UNTIL MID MORNING FRIDAY. && .FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ND...NONE. MN...NONE. && RIDDLE/GODON
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 557 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2008 MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-201100- WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS- WEST MARSHALL-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON-RED LAKE- EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN- SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN- WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-TOWNER-CAVALIER- PEMBINA-BENSON-RAMSEY-EASTERN WALSH COUNTY-EDDY-NELSON- GRAND FORKS-GRIGGS-STEELE-TRAILL-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT- RICHLAND-WESTERN WALSH COUNTY- 557 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY...NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND AGAIN FROM MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE IF ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS DEVELOP. NG
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail fell over the open waters of Lake of the Woods. The hail shaft was viewed from a distance by several boaters on the lake. Hail stones were floating on the lake after.
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