Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1992, 8:41 PM CDT for Roseau County, Minnesota. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 1992, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1992, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Roseau County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 446 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KINL 230141 SVRINL MNC135-230245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN 841 PM CDT SAT AUG 22 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INTERNATIONAL FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ...WESTERN ROSEAU COUNTY AT 840 PM CDT FARGO RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER THE TOWN OF LAKE BRONSON IN KITTSON COUNTY. HEAVY RAIN..HAIL..LIGHTENING AND GUSTY WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STOR THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM AND WILL EFFECT THE TOWNS OF HAUG..BADGER..FOX AND ROSEAU BETWEEN 900 AND 930 PM THIS SATURDAY EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND 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. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. NNNN
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, Aug 22, 6:41 PM CDT, 2 hours before
NDZ012-013-014-015-016-017-018-MNZ001-006-007-010-011-013-230045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 640 PM CDT SAT AUG 22 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND THE EXTREME NORTHWEST PART OF MINNESOTA UNTIL 11 PM CDT... AT 625 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MINNESOTA...35 MILES NORTH OF THIEF RIVER FALLS...OR JUST NORTHEAST OF STRANDQUIST. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR THE TOWN OF WARROAD BY 730 PM. OTHER SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA...AND OVER NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENING...AS ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS REMAIN EXCELLENT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERrE WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. ARMSTRONG
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 7:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
NDZ012-013-014-015-016-017-018-MNZ001-006-007-010-011-013-230045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 707 PM CDT SAT AUG 22 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND THE EXTREME NORTHWEST PART OF MINNESOTA UNTIL 11 PM CDT... AT 705 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS 45 MILES NORTH OF GRAND FORKS...OR IN THE ST THOMAS AREA OF PEMBINA COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL CROSS THE RED RIVER OF THE NORTH...AND APPROACH THE TOWN OF HALLOCK BY 730 PM. SEVERE WEATHER HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED THIS EVENING...HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG DAMAGING THUNDERSTORMS...SO STAY ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF THUNDERSTORMS. ARMSTRONG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1992Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.