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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 22, 1992Pembina County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1992, 5:43 PM CDT for Pembina County, North Dakota. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1992, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1992, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area
Whole counties

County Pembina County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 313 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, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 1992-06-22Temperature 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, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 1992-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 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 222243
TORFAR
NDC067-222315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
543 PM CDT MON JUN 22 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      PEMBINA

AT 535 PM CDT THE PUBLIC AND PEMBINA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
REPORTED A TORNADO JUST EAST OF WALHALLA NORTH DAKOTA MOVING
RAPIDLY SOUTH.  DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE TORNADO.

THIS WARNING INCLUDES CAVALIER AND AKRA.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FIND SHELTER IN A CENTRAL INTERIOR
ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...
PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD.
AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFHORCED
BUILDING.

EWENS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPembina, Walsh61 min
Jun 22, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGrand Forks, Pembina, Walsh55 min
Jun 22, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGrand Forks, Walsh57 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.