NWS Grand Forks NDSV.W 0189September 3, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Clearwater, Polk and Red Lake, MN
The National Weather Service office in Grand Forks issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Clearwater, Polk and Red Lake in Minnesota, which was in force until 9:15 p.m. local time on September 3. It was the 189th severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Grand Forks issued in 2026. Minnesota had 58 severe thunderstorm warnings in September 2026, against 37 in an average September of 2008-2025 (Minnesota's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
ExpiredWarning
In force for 1.1 hours; it has expired. The agency may have replaced it with a new notice.
The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Grand Forks ND
- Area
- Clearwater, Polk and Red Lake
- State
- Minnesota
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 8:12 p.m. CDT, September 3, 2026
- Expires
- 9:15 p.m. CDT, September 3, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KFGF SV.W 0189
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota since 2008Every warning type in Minnesota
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The notice as issued
SVRFGF The National Weather Service in Grand Forks has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Red Lake County in northwestern Minnesota... Southeastern Polk County in northwestern Minnesota... Northwestern Clearwater County in northwestern Minnesota... * Until 915 PM CDT. * At 811 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Mentor, or 26 miles south of Thief River Falls, moving east at 30 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Fosston, Red Lake Falls, Bagley, Fertile, McIntosh, Clearbrook, and Erskine.
What the agency told people to do
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
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The record around this notice
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota since 2008480 a year
- Every warning type in Minnesota
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning: what it means, and the states that get the most20,005 a year
- NWS notices, September 20262,824 in the month
- The latest from the National Weather Service
- Warning, watch or advisory: the three NWS levels