Alert archive / Minnesota / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1992, 11:23 PM CDT for Koochiching County, Minnesota. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1992, 11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1992, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
- Area
- Whole counties
County Koochiching County, MN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 11:38 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Koochiching, MN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1307 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 696 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 tornado 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 27, 10:41 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
NDZ012-013-014-015-016-017-018-MNZ001-006-007-010-011-013-280430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND 1040 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND PART OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA UNTIL 200 AM CDT... AT 1030 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...AND WERE MOVING INTO EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTH OF JAMESTOWN... AND WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH INTO NORTHERN BARNES COUNTY...AND BE APPROACHING THE BALD HILL DAM NORTH OF VALLEY CITY BY 1100 PM. BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL MAY OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD OCCURRED IN THE WATCH AREA...ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AT ANY TIME. REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING W%EATHER CONDITIONS TONIGHT...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION. ARMSTRONG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Koochiching | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Koochiching | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.