Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1992, 6:17 PM CDT for Pennington County, Polk County, Red Lake County, Minnesota. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1992, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What 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 24, 4:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
NDZ012-013-014-015-016-017-018-MNZ001-006-007-010-011-013-242230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 430 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST THROUGH NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA... AT 430 PM THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND RAINSHOWERS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND WERE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 50 MILES NORTH OF GRAND FORKS NORTH DAKOTA AND 20 MILES SOUTH OF DEVILS LAKE NORTH DAKOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH SMALL HAIL REPORTED EARLIER OVER NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY OF MINNESOTA BY 530 PM AND INTO GRIGGS AND STEELE COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA BY 530 PM. 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 RADIO FOR LATEST INFORMATION ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ANDERSEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 25 min |
| Jun 24, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Sargent | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 23 min |
| Jun 24, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Marshall | 63 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.