Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1992, 3:28 PM CDT for Otter Tail County, Minnesota. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1992, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1992, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Otter Tail County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2119 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 132028
SVRFAR
MNC111-132115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
328 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF MINNESOTA
NORTHERN OTTER TAIL
AT 325 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 20
MILES SOUTH OF DETROIT LAKES MINNESOTA MOVING NORTH AT 10 TO
15 MPH. TOWNS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE PELICAN RAPIDS AND
LAKE FRANKLIN MINNESOTA.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
ANDERSENWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, 2:41 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
NDZ012-013-014-015-016-017-018-MNZ001-006-007-010-011-013-132030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 230 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... AT 225 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF LAKE PARK MINNESOTA...35 TO 40 MILES EAST OF FARGO NORTH DAKOTA. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAIN...VISIBILITY LESS THAN 1/8 MILE IN RAIN AND LOTS OF PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS DRIFTING NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED OVER WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA IN A LINE FROM FERGUS FALLS MINNESOTA SOUTHEAST TO ST CLOUD MINNESOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DRIFTING NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH AND ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. PERSONS NEAR ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS AS WELL AS NOAA WEATHER RADION FOR LATEST INFORMATION ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ANDERSEN
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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.