Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1991, 5:08 PM CDT for Walsh County, North Dakota. It was in force for 22 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1991, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1991, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walsh County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 1191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 132208 TORFAR NDC099-132230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 508 PM CDT THU JUN 13 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FARGO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA ...WESTERN WALSH COUNTY AT 455 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE WALSH COUNTY LINE ...10 MILES EAST OF BROCKET OR 30 MILES EAST OF DEVILS LAKE NORTH DAKOTA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH A&S A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What 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, Jun 13, 2:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
NDZ012-013-014-015-016-017-018-MNZ001-006-007-010-011-013-132030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 255 PM CDT THU JUN 13 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA UNTIL 900 PM CDT... AT 233 PM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES EAST OF DEVILS LAKE NORTH DAKOTA ...AND 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEMIDJI MINNESOTA. IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY RAIN THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTING STRIKES...HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR THE FOLLOWING CITIES AND TOWNS BY 330 PM CDT. IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...WHITMAN...ADAMS...AND PARK RIVER. IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA...NORTHOME...KELLIHOR..AND BLACKDUCK. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR ONE OF THE CITIES OR TOWNS MENTIONED...STAY ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO GO TO A SAFE PLACE IF NEEDED. CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. KEEP IN MIND THE ABOVE MENTIONED WATCH AND LISTEN TO TV...RADIO...AS WELL AS NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 56 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.