Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1992, 9:24 PM CDT for Steele County, Traill County, North Dakota. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 1992, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1992, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 332 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
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, Aug 22, 6:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 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 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, 2 hours 12 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 |
| Aug 22, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Roseau | 64 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.