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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 24, 1992Cavalier County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1992, 5:20 PM CDT for Cavalier County, North Dakota. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1992, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1992, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Cavalier County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 278 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1992-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1992-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 242220
SVRFAR
NDC019-242245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
520 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      CAVALIER

AT 510 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR WEST OF
LANGDON NORTH DAKOTA MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE PUBLIC.

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.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
IF YOU SPOT A FUNNEL OR A TORNADO YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A
REINFORCED BUILDING OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS.

NORDLAND

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, 44 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRansom, Sargent62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 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.