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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Grand Forks, ND

July 5, 1988Kittson County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1988, 4:55 PM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1988, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1988, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Kittson County, MN

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 368 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1988-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1905 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1988-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1905 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-306 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1210 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPembina55 min
Jul 5, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFNelson, Walsh57 min
Jul 5, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFCavalier57 min

Nearby

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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.