Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Grand Forks, ND
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.
- 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
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.
NORDLANDWhat 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Sargent | 62 min |
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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.