Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1991, 1:30 PM CDT for Dickey County, North Dakota. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1991, 1:30 PM CDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1991, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickey County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFAR 301830
TORFAR
NDC021-301900-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
130 PM CDT THU MAY 30 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
EASTERN DICKEY
AT 127 PM CDT...STATE RADIO REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 60
MILES SOUTHEAST OF JAMESTOWN NORTH DAKOTA...OR 2 MILES EAST OF
OAKES...MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST.
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...TAKE SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
ARMSTRONGWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 30, 12:43 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
NDZ015-016-017-018-MNZ001-006-301900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 1245 PM CDT THU MAY 30 1991 AT 1230 PM CDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW STRONG...CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 25 MILES SOUTH OF FARGO NEAR HICKSON...JUST NORTHEAST OF FARGO BETWEEN DILWORTH AND GEORGETOWN...AND IN THE FORMAN AREA 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FARGO. AT 1145 AM CDT PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE COLFAX AREA OF SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HICKSON WILL MOVE THROUGH THE FARGO/ MOORHEAD AREA BETWEEN 100 PM AND 200 PM CDT...THE STORM NEAR FORMAN WILL MOVE INTO THE MILNOR AND MC LEOD AREAS BY 200 PM CDT...AND THE STORM JUST NORTHEAST OF FARGO WILL AFFECT THE GEORGETOWN AND FELTON AREAS. HAIL..DEADLY LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE CONTINUED INTENSIFICATION OF THESE STRONG STORMS RIGHT IN THE RED RIVER VALLEY. IF YOU LIVE IN THE PROJECTED PATH OF THESE STORMS YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER mCONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. EWENS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 1:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Sargent | 36 min |
| May 30, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass | 29 min |
| May 30, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 64 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.