Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 27, 1992Koochiching County, Minnesota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1992, 10:34 PM CDT for Koochiching County, Minnesota. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1992, 10:34 PM CDT (03:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1992, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Koochiching County, MN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 27, 11:00 PM CDT	Hail 2.5	Koochiching, MN

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 51 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -205 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1307 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 343 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 696 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KINL 280334
SVRINL
MNC071-280415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN
1034 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INTERNATIONAL FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING     EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
 
   ...CENTRAL KOOCHICHING COUNTY...
 
AT 1025 PM DULUTH RADAR SHOWED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ONE 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF INTERNATIONAL FALLS. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 35 MPH. TOWN IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM IS LITTLEFORK.
 
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SEEK SHELTER NOW. THIS STORM HAS A
HISTORY OF TENNIS BALL SIZE AND VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTING.
 
THE OTHER STORM IS LOCATED ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF INTERNATIONAL
FALLS. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE
TOWN OF INTERNATIONAL FALLS AND FORT FRANCIS AROUND 1130 PM CDT.
 
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING..MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING
DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOS WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.
 
NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods	38 min
Jun 27, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Lake of the Woods	30 min
Jun 27, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Koochiching	31 min
Jun 27, 11:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Koochiching	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.